Is there any free end-user report designer?
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Hello, I have the need in my project to add a "print-a-report" utility using Crystal Reports and the end-user must be able to customize the report's design visually, much like Visual Studio allows the developer to do. I don't have any experience with Crystal Reports and I was wondering if there was any (free) component or something to allow the end-users to change the appearance of the document or if building it oneself is the only option available, cuz I didn't find anything googling around. Thanks in advance.
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Hello, I have the need in my project to add a "print-a-report" utility using Crystal Reports and the end-user must be able to customize the report's design visually, much like Visual Studio allows the developer to do. I don't have any experience with Crystal Reports and I was wondering if there was any (free) component or something to allow the end-users to change the appearance of the document or if building it oneself is the only option available, cuz I didn't find anything googling around. Thanks in advance.
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Mr. Candyman, This might be of help. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.propertygrid.aspx[^] Regards, Gareth.
Thanks, but that's not quite what I need; this only browses through the properties of the instance itself, while I actually want the end-user to visually edit the appearance of the report using some kind of designer tool, just like Visual Studio or Access when you open a report with it.
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Hello, I have the need in my project to add a "print-a-report" utility using Crystal Reports and the end-user must be able to customize the report's design visually, much like Visual Studio allows the developer to do. I don't have any experience with Crystal Reports and I was wondering if there was any (free) component or something to allow the end-users to change the appearance of the document or if building it oneself is the only option available, cuz I didn't find anything googling around. Thanks in advance.
If you are using SQL Server 2005 or above, you may want to take a look at Report Builder[^]. It is a component of the suite, in the form of a ClickOnce application that is intended for allowing end users to create/customize reports on SQL Server Reporting Services. A google search will net you a bunch more information. Hope that helps to get you started. :)
--Jesse
"... the internet's just a big porn library with some useful articles stuck in." - Rob Rodi
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If you are using SQL Server 2005 or above, you may want to take a look at Report Builder[^]. It is a component of the suite, in the form of a ClickOnce application that is intended for allowing end users to create/customize reports on SQL Server Reporting Services. A google search will net you a bunch more information. Hope that helps to get you started. :)
--Jesse
"... the internet's just a big porn library with some useful articles stuck in." - Rob Rodi
Why, that's interesting, didn't know about it, thanks. Alas, that's not exactly what I'm looking for. I don't want the user to actually "generate" the report itself (the data will always be the same), but rather to be able to edit just the appearance of the document to print, so they can create and select multiple report "models" or "styles" once the report itself is already generated.