In this case they definitely do. It's for an accounting system. And this particular report is just a dump of transactons.

>Perhaps a revisit of the user's needs. I don't see how any user can wade through a report that is that long.
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>>I hope this is a good place to ask this type of question. I'm working on a java app that currently uses Crystal for reporting. This works fine 99% of the time.
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>>Users don't like that on a couple reports, that are basically data dumps, report generation takes several minutes. These reports just categorize the data, possibly a couple thousand pages.
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>>Crystal has to generate the entire report. Does anyone have any experience with any reporting engines that might handle large reports in a more acceptable manor?
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>>Thanks,
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>>PF