I second Stephane's recommendation. I have been using Active Reports for 4 years
or so, in various in-house engineering applications, with multiple users around
the country. I have thrown all kinds of things at it: run it with databases, run
it with on-the-fly recordsets, run it totally unbound with tricky formatting
event handlers and what not. One report uses the canvas feature to generate 5
other reports and combine their pages into one big report. It can export PDF,
RTF, and comma-separated text (readable by Excel). Works everytime.
"Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> You might want to look at Active Reports... by Data Dynamics
>
www.datadynamics.com
>
> Product link is:
http://www.datadynamics.com/Products...roductTOC.aspx
>
> It's reviewed here:
>
http://www.avdf.com/june98/art_r002.html
>
http://www.vbxtras.com/products/activereports.asp
>
> internally, this one uses a dynamic approach to exporting which is limited
> only by system resources and not finite datatypes...I think it's a good
> alternative.
> --
> Stéphane Richard
> Senior Software and Technology Supervisor
>
http://www.totalweb-inc.com
> For all your hosting and related needs
> "David" <dhodgkins@chestnut.org> wrote in message
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> > Hi all,
> > I am hoping someone can suggest a reporting tool that I can use
> > with my program. Currently, I am using Crystal Reports. I use the
> > reports strictly as a container that I dump data into. It does not
> > connect directly to any data source. For each element of data that I
> > am passing in, there is a corresponding formula field with the same
> > element name. Thus I have a variable called "A1a" that has a value of
> > "3", my program pushes into the Crystal Report to the formula {@A1a}
> > the value of "3". Then, based upon that, I may have statements print
> > out or simply make specified shadow boxes visible or suppress them.
> > For the most part, this works really well. The problem comes with our
> > flagship report, which has close to 2000 formula fields in Crystal and
> > close to 8000 elements in the report that are based on the 2000
> > formula fields. It will display the report fine, but crashes if you
> > try to export to another format such as Word or Adobe (the two needed
> > ones for me). I sent the report to Seagate and it crashed their
> > systems as well. They said it is to much to export. That leads me to
> > the question: Does anyone know of a report tool taht can do what I
> > need?
> >
> > Dave[/color]
>
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