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Help with complex report
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02/09/1998 09:50:49
 
 
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02/09/1998 09:42:32
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00131930
Message ID:
00132320
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22
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>>Sounds like Crystal Reports can help you out here. Each section can be an embedded subreport.
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>Craig -
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>Have you encountered any situations where the native Report Designer was a better or more appropriate solution, or once you have Crystal Reports, can that do it all?
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>Sylvia

I hope you will not mind if I jump here. Generally, Crystal Report is better tool, but there is issue of maintainability. Using Crystal Report you get committed to some problems (usually, not critical but still problems) when you distribute and maintain application. I mean that you will have to provide right version of Crstl.Ocx on each workstation an more important correct registration of each version. Assuming, that Crystal Report is widely used and later on or beforehand some VB developer will distribute another application with another Crystal version and so on, it can go to bumpy road. When you use native Fox report writer, you, at least, will not have this pain.
Edward Pikman
Independent Consultant
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