Crystal Reports - We All Love to Hate
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Crystal Reports sucks
But Crystal Reports is one of the successful reports that i dealed with
Boukh wrote:
But Crystal Reports is one of the successful reports that i dealed with
Oh well - I'll change my opinion then. Nope sorry, you've mistaken me for somebody who actually cares what reports you've produced.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Yes, we all love to hate Crystal Reports, but, sometimes, we are forced to use it at our workplace. Today, one of the users reported an issue when printing reports from the Intranet; they were getting multiple copies. When I investigated, I discovered that the number of copies being printing was the square of the number of copies requested. Request 1, get one; request 2, get 4; request 3, get 9... After much searching, I found a serivce pack to address the issue... but, come on! What developer allowed THAT to slide into a commercial system??? Hopefully, the service pack doesn't break anything else... Tim
Tim Carmichael wrote:
When I investigated, I discovered that the number of copies being printing was the square of the number of copies requested. Request 1, get one; request 2, get 4; request 3, get 9...
Perhaps it was by design - you all know that feeling when you get to a meeting and you realise you haven't printed off enough copies for all of the attendees :)
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Thanks, I'm stuck with Oracle for the foreseeable future, but I'm definately going to take a serious look at Xtrareports.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Crystal Reports sucks
But Crystal Reports is one of the successful reports that i dealed with
I call it lack of competition! :|
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
ell, there's always this[^] hugely expensive, overkill solution.
Well, my company doesn't have the turnover of a small nation, nor am I able to clone myself. I think I'll have a look at your previous suggestion :)
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I call it lack of competition! :|
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Tim Carmichael wrote:
Yes, we all love to hate Crystal Reports, but, sometimes, we are forced to use it at our workplace.
I've come to the same conclusion. But then I wondered, are there really no good alternatives? So as a little question to all CPians out there, which alternatives are there for making printed reports?
There's always the FlowDocument class[^] and the rest of the System.Windows.Documents[^] namespace for you to roll your own...
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Boukh wrote:
competition with whom
Never mind. Feel free to chip into this conversation when you understand what's being said.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Boukh wrote:
competition with whom
Never mind. Feel free to chip into this conversation when you understand what's being said.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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steve ballmer is a god among men.
----------------------------------------------------------- Completion Deadline: two days before the day after tomorrow
modified on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:30 PM
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steve ballmer is a god among men.
----------------------------------------------------------- Completion Deadline: two days before the day after tomorrow
modified on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:30 PM
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Boukh wrote:
he is a microsoft gay after all
Wow - I hadn't realised he'd come out of the closet. :rolleyes:
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Boukh wrote:
he is a microsoft gay after all
Wow - I hadn't realised he'd come out of the closet. :rolleyes:
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Boukh wrote:
why you people hate every thing that works
Nope - I just dislike it when people try to chip in, and they rank at a negative on the clue-o-meter.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Boukh wrote:
why do you hate microsoft that much
What? I like Microsoft. I'm not the one throwing out slander about Steve Ballmer here. Seriously, are you really this clueless or did the nurse let you out for the night?
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Boukh wrote:
why you people hate every thing that works
Nope - I just dislike it when people try to chip in, and they rank at a negative on the clue-o-meter.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Boukh wrote:
why you people hate every thing that works
It works in general. But it has a shipload of issues that is creating problems that is not my fault. I can live with problems that I create myself. I can fix them. But waiting for more than half a year for Business Objects to fix some obscure bugs, IS getting on my mind. The problem is that the alternatives i have found so far isn't advanced enough or easy enough to use.
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Boukh wrote:
why you people hate every thing that works
It works in general. But it has a shipload of issues that is creating problems that is not my fault. I can live with problems that I create myself. I can fix them. But waiting for more than half a year for Business Objects to fix some obscure bugs, IS getting on my mind. The problem is that the alternatives i have found so far isn't advanced enough or easy enough to use.
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Boukh wrote:
why do you hate microsoft that much
What? I like Microsoft. I'm not the one throwing out slander about Steve Ballmer here. Seriously, are you really this clueless or did the nurse let you out for the night?
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Boukh wrote:
why you people hate every thing that works
Nope - I just dislike it when people try to chip in, and they rank at a negative on the clue-o-meter.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Yeah Pete - time for a more positive attitude ;P
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