Hi,

Does anyone have any suggestions on graphical report writers? I'm looking to make a reporting engine that calls template graph files. We have Crystal reports, which has a great DLL engine for doing such a thing, but it is lacking some graphing functionality (such as the ability to make bar graphs with 3 data pieces for each section). Basically, I would like something that is easy to design reports, as I don't want to be stuck doing it. I just want to point the engine to a template file and run the report (print it out).

We have some other products here that can construct graphs with function calls. This will not work for us if we have a, how does one put this politely, "non-computergifted" person designing graphs. I know I don't want to re-vamp the engine everytime my boss wants to change the colors of the bars (g).

Any thoughts or pointers would be appreciated, thanks,
Scot.