[DUG] Rave Reports

[Alister Christie]

I've been using Quick Reports and QRDesign for about 10 years (give or 
take), it's buggy and annoying but I've been able to do really powerful 
things with it.  The QRDesign editor is pretty good, but Quick Reports 
is a bit scary (although I'm using version 3 - version 5 might be a bit 
nicer).

Alister Christie
Computers for People
Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
http://www.salespartner.co.nz
PO Box 13085
Johnsonville
Wellington 



Jeremy Coulter wrote:
> Thanks Max.
> Guess I have a few days of investigation ahead of me.
> I am now not just thinking of Rave, but also ReportBuilder (upgrading 
> to the latest) and FastReports.
> I have heard FastReports is meant to be res. good.
>
> Jeremy
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Max Nilson <max at accredo.co.nz 
> <mailto:max at accredo.co.nz>> wrote:
>
>     Jeremy Coulter asked further:
>
>     > I seemed to remember that it output to PDF, but does it also
>     export to
>     Excel too?
>
>     Ummm, moderately badly as I have tested. The Excel export engine
>     portion
>     makes a bunch of guesses at cell positioning and stuff the generated
>     report data into Excel with a certain amount of formatting. Its all a
>     bit ugly really because it's a translation from paper based
>     positioning
>     into Excel cell based positioning..
>
>     Needless to say this was not good enough for us, so I wrote my own
>     Excel
>     and XLS exporting engines that take our raw data and moves it into
>     Excel
>     at exact locations, and with totalling expressions where possible. We
>     never exposed our users to the RPPro Excel output at all after in
>     house
>     testing.
>
>     > Most of our data is pretty basic. the most complex it gets is
>     that it
>     requires grouping.
>     > I guess I need to workout our most complex report, and see how I go
>     reproducing that.
>
>     RPPro (code based) is superb at single dataset based reports with
>     grouping. Its pretty much all our reporting engine does, with only
>     bells
>     and whistles being that we allow the users to selected the visible
>     fields, the totalled fields, and the rest just generated.
>
>     The other extras I have added are ways of generating master-detail
>     dataset style reports and other more complicated structures (like
>     master-detail-detail and master-(detail, detail), but as usual 80% of
>     the reports are single table and the rest are not much more
>     complicated.
>
>     Cheers, Max.
>
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