Bob,

I realize its easy to do.. IF you can use a Windows server. He's running Apache on Linux.


>Craig,
>What he is asking is really quite simple,
>using odbc, and VFP you can create your own vfp reports and save them as pdf files (all for free) there might be some cost to get the licence for the db2 odbc driver But having a report server/ running VFP is not all that
>uncommon.
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>What would be necessary, would be to have active fox, or west wind or some vfp / web connection, which got fields filed out, send the data back to a running vfp app, which then created on the fly reports and fed them back to the browser. Hell for 50k and new jag, I'd consider writing such a monster myself next weekend.
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>my pdf converter is a place to start, to get vfp reports published on the web, but you do need something which collects the requirments of the reports, Could be as simple a cgi call, but something which fires up VFP and runs the report.
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>http://www.1amsoftware.com/vfpps2pdf/index.htm
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>ps.. Adobe Acrobat does not allow for acrobat to be used as a 'server' on a web server, So I would be careful about suggesting that one.
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>Bob Lee
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