these components allow you to connect your data model to the web. apart from this, you can also use data manager to configure web connectivity.

• url button − when a user clicks at run time, a button links to a relative or absolute url.

• reporting service button − this allows you to connect to the reporting services server and select a report to use in the data model.

• slide show − this allows you to create a slide show of url based images and swf files.

• swl loader − this allows you to load the swf files from a url and you don’t have to import the files. it is similar to the slide show component but it provides better memory management.

• connection refresh button − this allows the user to refresh the connection manually when you link to it.