They are just asking if there's a report engine that will work in a way that will appear to the user as if it's working faster on the large reports then it is now.

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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 [sic]?
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>I'm not sure exactly what you mean, pretty much any reporting engine will have to "generate the entire report". How do you output a large report accurately and only "generate a partial report" <s>?
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>Even if you're only printing or otherwise physically rendering a selection of pages, in most cases you still have to generate the full report to be assured of appropriate calculation results.
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>A somewhat dangerous exception (I believe) is a REPORT FORM ... SUMMARY command in Fox, which does *not* run through the detail bands at all. You have to be careful not to use UDF()s or whatever in the detail band that are supposed to have an effect on summary totals if you allow SUMMARY to be used; the totals could be wrong. From an accounting POV I'm sure you can see why this is dangerous <g>.
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