>>We are preparing a significant upgrade for our main product and are looking for samples of modern looking reports that are easily implemented with VFP.
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>If you are looking to refresh overall design of reports, then you can find abundance of nice report design samples on the internet.
>Personally I tend to keep it simple, just touch of color here and there but mostly black on white, bigger bold font (whenever possible)
>for easy reading. I use Tahoma or Arial for 'workhorse' reports, occasionally Century Gothic for more fancy looking stuff.
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>Now in terms of report layout features, there is no longer anything that cannot be implemented in pure VFP9.
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>Personally I use VFP9 report designer + RS in combination with XFRX. (All VFP)
>RS covers for all those 'irregular' report requests (Be that subreports, drilldowns, dynamic report content, complex electronic paper production, filling preprinted forms, etc),
>whereas XFRX is plugged in for all report conversion needs.
>Exception is excel which I code manually via excel class automation. Surprisingly or not, these excel reports most popular amongst the users.
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>If you are looking for more thorough reporting overhaul, then you should consider wrapping reports inside some solid class pattern.
>I use extensively session objects which encapsulate reporting tasks into its own data space (session) . Any report (or group of them!) should be able to be called eighter interactively by user, or programmatically without any user interaction. I can send you one sample of such classes / reports that can be run interactively from anywhere inside desktop application, or can be used to serve other applications or processes (like producing pdf/html for some webserver or NET application, etc. )
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>Little planning ahead in terms of architecture can pay great dividends later :)
>HTH
>Sergio

Hi Sergio,

I am mostly looking to refresh overall design of reports with a new look. Do you know of any site that shows a bunch of nice report design samples?

I'd be especially interested on a sample of a report / class that you mention.

Thanks a lot,

Alex