>>Alternatively Foxfire and (and Stonefield Query) can be used as a "soft" means of harding coding query logic -- which saves a lot of time over coding queries for the user by hand -- but is still a long way from giving the user an independent ad-hoc query tool.
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>Gar,
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>That's interesting since FoxFire was used in a vertiacal market application to provide completely ad hoc reporting capabilities and it did a very good job of it. Of course we extended the datadictionary and added our own changes to the source code and so forth, but it saved us a whole lot of time.


By completely ad hoc, you mean one where a naive user could report on data whose structure was not already in your data dictionary?

Also the last time I looked at Foxfire -- if users got to choose ANDS or ORs in a query they did this by inputting AND or OR. Has this changed? Or was this one of the things you coded around?

Thanks

gar