>What would you guys think about integrating a light or express version of crystal reports into VFP7/8 instead of living with the VFP report designer? Currently, I think the report designer is the weak link in the IDE.
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>Advantages of Crystal over VFP reporter designer
>- free up the Foxteam to improve other aspects of the IDE
>- multi-band reports
>- drill down reports
>- export to Word, Excel, HTML and PDF

A major disadvantage with Cryslat will be not allowing use of VFP expressions.
Does Crystal have a way of accessing VFP thru COM? Maybe that would be a solution.

costas