>Anyone aware of any 3rd party controls to allow the generation of a report in a runtime module? I'd like to give my users the ability to select a view, fields from the view and the sequence and be able to create a report. Ideally - they could specify subtotal breaks.
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>Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated... I'd hate to have to write my own!
Hi Swen!
I can not offer you exactly what you want. However, you may want to check out Visual GenRepoX. You can download it for free from
www.eps-software.com. The product allows to specify a number of fields the user may want to choose to print (among other features).
Also, MS postet a sample I created that shows how to create reports on the fly. You can get if from the owners-area at the VFP-web site (
www.microsoft.com/vfoxpro).
If all of this doesn't help, I might still be able to help out with a product codenamed KARDO. I use it in a couple of my own projects. Basically, what KARDO does is it has a report definition object. You can add fields to that object, and so forth. Then, you send that object to a creation engine. There are (or will be) various engines. One (that I'm using now) creates the FRX, another one DOCs, yet another one HTML, and so forth.
However, that product will still go through quite some redesign before we make it available to the public. However, we are thinking about showing this to a handful of people in the near future. Also, this product won't be for free.
Markus