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>>Does anyone satisfied with VFP9 Report Designer? I find it not impressive. I think I have to dig more on it...
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>>Only for the Report Designer, I'm expecting that it can catch up with Crystal Reports. I've seen a lot of reports created with Crystal Reports and very impressive. The rest of VFP its ok... a lot of improvement.
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>If you want a report designer that can produce reports as good as Crystal Reports, then I think you will have to look elsewhere (Crystal Reports or SQL Reporting Services perhaps?) because if it has taken the MS this long to do just these enhancements to the reports functionality*, then I can't imagine how long it will take for them to catch up to Crystal Reports or SQL Reports.
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>* While I have read about the changes to VFP 9 Reports, I haven't had the chance to do much with it yet so I can't really comment on how useful the current enhancements really are.
Good points of you and Jojo. For me too it is still unclear whether or not the new report functionality can compete with commercial products like crystal reports. I think it should, no, it must.
There is not only the theme whether or not it can, but also whether or not the vfp-developer who doesn't want to dig into all the documentation details gets the IMPRESSION that it can compete.
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