Most all of the current crop of accounting/erp apps use a Crystal reports run time or something equivalent.
If you've got to print out say a 1000 page accounts payable aging or invoice register - (very common) maybe your system can PDF it - but that's just not a good use of a browser app. Hand coding loops for detail bands etc. is what we're left with. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Ed Leafe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 7, 2009, at 4:18 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: > > > But surely if people are developing the sorts of applications that > > used > > to be fat client desktop apps as web-based apps these days, they still > > need to run reports against the data? You still need to print > > payslips > > from your payroll app, whether it runs in a browser or not. > > My guess is that most of those uses are either on older systems, or > on simpler tools. The idea of a monolithic tool for creating any > imaginable paper report doesn't seem to be very popular. I can log on > to my cell phone account and see a list of all my calls, and I'm sure > it was done in a standard web tool rather than some standalone tool > like Crystal. > > > -- Ed Leafe > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
