amen brother, to be honest I like FlexReport- but it's not ready for an enterprise app. it's a good starting point, but I really need something much more robust.
i'm in the same boat, would love to provide all the great reportability and UI that has been touted but more and more i see people 'hacking' out flex reports in anything other than 'flex'. Adobe, where is the flex report builder??? d. On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:10 AM, ansury2001 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need some advice on whether FlexReport is ready for "real" use. > > I've already taken a look at it some, and other than it being a pain > to setup and rather slow, I think it may work well enough. But I want > to get some 3rd party opinions on others who have used it-- or, what > other solutions have you come up with? Are most people just using 3rd > party tools like Oracle BI Publisher or Crystal Reports, resorting to > that primitive "HTML round-trip" stuff? ^_^ > > I also would like to provide users with report building capabilities. > I know reporting is complex, but has anyone done anything similiar or > had any experience creating a report builder in Flex? Something like > ClearBI would be great. (Unfortunately ClearBI has no user base, no > support, no community, extremely restrictive setup requirements, is > almost impossible to setup and get working, isn't cheap (considering > what you're getting), and seems like a VERY risky choice for > reporting.) > > As a side rant... > Flex is not going to take off in an "enterprise environment" as Adobe > seems to be claiming it is ready for until we can do reporting > natively in the swf app, without a ton of issues and work to do. I > don't care whether it's built into Flex, created separately by Adobe, > or built by a third party, but a real solution is going to be needed > very soon, before something like Silverlight exploits this weakness. > FlexReport won't be this solution no matter how good it gets, because > it's scope isn't large enough. Users need to be able to create their > own reports using the reporting interface! > > >
