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Reports & Report designer
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Windows 2003 Server
That is the approach my last client took. The users love it. Not only can reports be sent to them automatically in email, with the PDF as an attachment, they can easily reprint past reports as needed (PDF name = report name + date). One day I was talking to two of the users and one laughingly mentioned the huge reams of paper she used to get every day, with no way to refer back other than keeping the hard copies. "My god, we were living in the Stone Age," she said. This is a very easy, great bang-for-the-buck approach any shop with VFP reports can adopt.
>If your solution is for internal customers, Crystal on the web will work. If it's for external customers, licensing costs will probably make it cost prohibitive. BTW, Crystal Reports does support memo fields. I'm not sure what made you think it doesn't. Why not just output to PDF and display it in the browser?
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>>We are slowly but surely migrating from VFP apps into ASP.Net applications. Part of this transition is requiring us to look for a reporting solution that can easily be deployed through a web browser. Naturally we have downloaded a demo of Crystal Reports and have started working with it. One of the problems we have found immediately is that it doesn't support memo fields. There maybe a work around here but it isn't obvious.
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>>My question; what are some of the alternative report writers to VFP that have the following basic criteria:
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>>- Easily deployable through the web
>>- Has a decent designer and can make fairly sophisticated reports
>>- Supports VFP tables well (memo fields)
>>- Low cost would be nice as well
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>>I appreciate any help or advice!!!
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>>Greg
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