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Reports should have a Query Language

MicroStation's Reports interface is a closed UI.  That is, we can manipulate the UI to create a report definition, but that definition remains obscure.  It's stored internally in a DGN file.

It would be great to have a formal report definition language analogous to SQL or XQuery.  That way, a Report definition could be documented, archived and shared.

Jon Summers
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    I think ECSQL can be the solution here. Unfortunately (at least as far as I know) it can be generated from ECQuery only (a kind of read-only mode), but I do know how to write ECSQL and ask a parser to evaluate it and to create ECQuery from the string.

    Regards,

      Jan

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