>I haven't yet taken on board any 3rd party report writers but continue the drudge of native VFP copy over reports. What's the experienced general view on learning curve investment on Foxfire (or for that matter) any other report writer ?
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>John Harriss

John, it depends greatly on what you plan to do with the reports. As I said in another message on this thread, Foxfire! is designed for end-users, so they can put together reports from any fields, combining the data as they wish. If you have a limited number of pre-designed reports in your system Foxfire! is probably over-kill. If your users want to slice & dice their data in many ways Foxfire! becomes a necessity.