Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-15 Thread pjones
For what it's worth, I have just evaluated (mostly) Seagate Info 7. In the process I had a look at Report Builder Pro. Info includes Seagate Report Designer (formelly Crystal Reports) as well as many other designers. The only comparison that can be made between RB Pro (or non pro) is in the d

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-15 Thread Mark Derricutt
Hmm - time to answer my own postings :) Mark Derricutt wrote: > > This is a worry. Some add on third party things don't keep up with the > > play. Mark didn't you say earlier you couldn't get this to install? In this case it was I that didn't keep up with the play and installing the latest rele

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Mark Derricutt
Belding wrote: > This is a worry. Some add on third party things don't keep up with the > play. Mark didn't you say earlier you couldn't get this to install? I got another email from James this morning, the current version of his TExtraDevices is for RB4.05 (i'm still using 4.03) so I've just do

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Belding
>> We are using CR6 on Access (900 MB) and MS SQL Server 6.5 >>databases up to 1.2Gb with no problems. >> >> >So can you please let us in on the secret, How do you get a report to run in >a reasonable time where you have a join involving say 8 tables (not an >unreasonable number) accross a 900MB D

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Belding
At 13:46 15/03/99 +1300, you wrote: >Report Builder Pro provides a very nice royalty free end-user report >designer. Report formats can be stored in BLOB fields inside a database >which is very handy, or also saved to disk. The report designer has >-full- query-by-example editors so that you're

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Tony Blomfield
-Original Message- From: Paul Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, 15 March 1999 12:37 Subject: RE: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4) > >Someone earlier said CR7 does server sid

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Tony Blomfield
Fair enough... >So I'm preparing to shift my 16 bit apps report package into a D4 program >and this will mean having two bde's installed on each clients server. One >for the app and one for its reporting package. > > >Regards > > >Russell Belding >Belding Computing Devices >WINLAW, BIZXWORD, ENG

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Mark Derricutt
Tony wrote: > nice simple report builder to hand on to my customers instead of Crystal, > but there does not appear to be much out there. As Steve points out, if Report Builder Pro provides a very nice royalty free end-user report designer. Report formats can be stored in BLOB fields inside a d

RE: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Belding
At 13:36 15/03/99 +1300, you wrote: > >Someone earlier said CR7 does server side filtering. > The manual says this is new to CR7. > > >CR can export to RTF faily well but it cannot > >export correctly to MS Word preserving all the formatting... > Is that generally

RE: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Paul Ritchie
>Someone earlier said CR7 does server side filtering. The manual says this is new to CR7. >CR can export to RTF faily well but it cannot >export correctly to MS Word preserving all the formatting... Is that generally a requirement of report writers?

RE: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Belding
Russell wrote > >This reply is from a pragmatic Crystal Reports user not from someone who >knows Crystal internals well. I'm using the Crystal Reports Print Engine 16 >from a D1 application and some reports requiring a date range or name of >person it brings back all records to the client pc for f

RE: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-13 Thread Tony Blomfield
At 22:45 12/03/99 +1300, Tony wrote: > >The question I asked on my last mail was directed to the chap, who obviously >new Crystal very well, but unfortunatly I haven't had a reply. To refresh >your memory, the question was "Does Crystal still create real dumb SQL which >can not be modified and wh

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-12 Thread Belding
At 22:45 12/03/99 +1300, Tony wrote: > >The question I asked on my last mail was directed to the chap, who obviously >new Crystal very well, but unfortunatly I haven't had a reply. To refresh >your memory, the question was "Does Crystal still create real dumb SQL which >can not be modified and whi

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-12 Thread Tony Blomfield
list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, 13 March 1999 09:26 Subject: Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4) >At 10:45 pm 12/3/1999 +1300, Tony Blomfield said: >>The question I asked on my last mail was directed to the chap, who obviously >>new Cryst

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-12 Thread Mark Derricutt
Steve Peacocke wrote: > I've been using QR but will have a looky at this RBPro due to the kind > words and warm fuzzies experienced by others here. Steve, don't forget to check out the news.digatal-metaphors.com usenet server, just reading through should be very informative for you as well. Mar

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-12 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 10:45 pm 12/3/1999 +1300, Tony Blomfield said: >The question I asked on my last mail was directed to the chap, who obviously >new Crystal very well, but unfortunatly I haven't had a reply. To refresh >your memory, the question was "Does Crystal still create real dumb SQL which >can not be modif

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-12 Thread Tony Blomfield
-Original Message- From: Mark Derricutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, 12 March 1999 10:27 Subject: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4) Tony Blomfield wrote: > In addition, IMO quick reports is very muc