Ah, but the beauty of the Report Designer is that it's extensible with external tools like GenRepoX and FRX2Word since it's metadata. And, if all else fails, the developer can proclaim "FTS" and move to Crystal or something else.
>Yup, that's where I got my info from. Apparently pieces of it are much more difficult to change/fragile than others. My guess is that the report designer is one of them and that's why it hasn't had major improvements.
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