>Hi, Jim,
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>This type of functionality has existed for years in Crystal Reports.
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>I'm not trying to rain on VFP9's parade...the SQL enhancements will be welcomed with open arms. But I'd go so far as to say it's 'off strategy' for MS to add things to the report writer. They did so little to it for so long, while Crystal became a great alternative.

That's exactly why I started using Crystal Reports.

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>Many who needed advanced reporting/graphing functionality have moved on to Crystal, which has pretty good integration with VFP. I think it's reasonable to expect that the reporting enhancements in VFP9 will still leave the report writer a subset of what CRW can do.

I think it unreasonable to expect the enhancements in the VFP report writer to equal those in Crystal. After all, Crystal has been evolving for years. In my session at DevEssentials, I will show the new stuff in the VFP report designer and also how to use Crystal Reports and discuss the advantages/disadvantages of both.


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>Kevin