Embedded Reporting
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Hi, at this moment I use Crystal Reports as an embedded reporter in my application. This means that my customers can design their own reports from within my application (provided they have the correct Crystal Reports licenses) and view the final report based on data that comes directly from my application's memory (it is passed from my application to CR using a record set). Unfortunately, I have quite some problems with CR at this moment: - terrible performance under Vista - regular crashes in the embedded CR report designer when creating complex reports - there's no 64-bit version of the CR ActiveX/COM components So, my questions: - does anyone of you use an embedded reporting component? - if it is CR, what are your experiences with it? - if it's another one, which one do you use (as I am thinking about switching to another component) Or do you have any other suggestions regarding using an embedded reporting component in an application? Thanks.
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Hi, at this moment I use Crystal Reports as an embedded reporter in my application. This means that my customers can design their own reports from within my application (provided they have the correct Crystal Reports licenses) and view the final report based on data that comes directly from my application's memory (it is passed from my application to CR using a record set). Unfortunately, I have quite some problems with CR at this moment: - terrible performance under Vista - regular crashes in the embedded CR report designer when creating complex reports - there's no 64-bit version of the CR ActiveX/COM components So, my questions: - does anyone of you use an embedded reporting component? - if it is CR, what are your experiences with it? - if it's another one, which one do you use (as I am thinking about switching to another component) Or do you have any other suggestions regarding using an embedded reporting component in an application? Thanks.
Enjoy life, this is not a rehearsal !!!
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Patje wrote:
Or do you have any other suggestions regarding using an embedded reporting component in an application?
We have our own system. If it's that important to your product perhaps you don't want to rely on a third party component?
Yep, that's one alternative, but reporting is not our core business and you cannot beat 3rd party reporting components regarding look and feel. We have a very simple reporting tool written ourselves in our software, but this is limited to some iterations over records and some column values. No nice formatting (fonts, colors, alignment), no graphs, ... These simple reports are sufficient for 80% of the normal daily users, but for the more demanding users, and for creating management reports, we use the embedded Crystal Reports. Unfortunately, as I said before, they have no 64-bit flavor, regular crashes, etc. That's why I started looking for an alternative embedded reporting tool.
Enjoy life, this is not a rehearsal !!!
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Yep, that's one alternative, but reporting is not our core business and you cannot beat 3rd party reporting components regarding look and feel. We have a very simple reporting tool written ourselves in our software, but this is limited to some iterations over records and some column values. No nice formatting (fonts, colors, alignment), no graphs, ... These simple reports are sufficient for 80% of the normal daily users, but for the more demanding users, and for creating management reports, we use the embedded Crystal Reports. Unfortunately, as I said before, they have no 64-bit flavor, regular crashes, etc. That's why I started looking for an alternative embedded reporting tool.
Enjoy life, this is not a rehearsal !!!
Patje wrote:
you cannot beat 3rd party reporting components regarding look and feel.
Yes we can and do. I think what you mean to say is your team can't beat them. So that's a limitation you will just have to live with. Sometimes you will meet your requirments and other times not. You are not in control so just go with the flow, relax and enjoy life.