[DUG] Reporting experience

[Paul Hectors]

Hi Gary,

We use ReportBuilder at PowerShield and I am personally not that impressed with it however it is coded into the product and difficult to justify changing.

Things I personally do not like about ReportBuilder is the lack of feedback provided when it does not like what you are trying to do. This typically is around layout issues and as a result causes blank pages or blank areas between sections of the report.
If you are doing something wrong the other result is a complete blank report with very little clues as to where it is failing.
These kind of problems ruin productivity as you spend a lot of time 'fighting' with ReportBuilder until you get the result you want.

I am personally not coding but managing the project and over time there have been at least 3 developers doing reports and I believe none of them are a fan of ReportBuilder.

We have found product support to be very good by the makers of ReportBuilder, so all credit to them.
So if you are considering ReportBuilder please make sure you move beyond the marketing hype and give it a try with your requirements.

Best regards,

Paul

From: delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of Gary T. Benner
Sent: Tuesday, 13 May 2014 9:45 a.m.
To: delphi at delphi.org.nz
Subject: [DUG] Reporting experience

HI all,

With recent changes to reporting in Delphi, I was wondering if a few of you could provide some feedback on the effectiveness of the various reporting modules.

With Rave going the way of QuickReports, the territory seems to now be that of ReportBuilder, FastReports etc. Any others?

We recently had major issues with Internationalisation using Rave and the ability to handle the export to PDF, which in our experience is now demanded more than actual printing on to paper, as we move to a paperless office as norm.

So, any comments as to the best tool?

Any horror stories?

kind regards

Gary

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