Thanks for the info Mike. Ye I'm sort of tempted by the roll your own method, it just seemed to be such a gap in the market I thought there ought to be something. In fact I think there are, Acuate looks cool but as you say it's expensive, and in fact it just does what the roll your own method would do. My problem is I have to talk the company out of using Crystal. Nice to know other poeple have come to the same conclusion.
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Vinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 April 2002 01:23 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: I need printable reports in browser from Oracle (must be an alter native to Crystal#!@?#!!? Kevan, There's definitely stuff in the archive ... Cognos, et.al. I'm doing the 'roll your own' method with CF/Access (in my case) plus ActivePDF -- and it's turning out to be a good solution. Also, I have recently sumo-wrestled with Crystal Reports and the bugs and quirks are damn near intolerable!!! One of my recent projects, however, called for editable documents with pretty graphic footers & TOC's (tables of contents) and I didn't want head down the path of RTF graphics &/or COM objects -- so Crystal finally got the job done ----- after starting from scratch 3 or 4 times due to corrupt files, my own ignorance, etc. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any one-size-fits-all tools in the $1000 range and some of the other toolkits are very expensive. Good Luck, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >There must be a good reporting tool out there. At the moment we use Crystal >to produce them and it's active-x viewer app to display and print them. But >Crystal is a dog, that f----s up every server we have installed it on and >you have to install on the web server to get the viewer to work, despite the >fact that you're not supposed to need to. Plus it's inflexible and limited >in terms of the reports it produces. >Short of writing reports in CF and using something to turn them into PDF's, >what else is there? There must be something? Please tell me there's any easy >answer to this. > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
