[DUG] Reporting experience

[Jeremy Coulter]

I am a ReportBuilder fan, but I am just slowly updating an old Delphi 2007
project to XE6, but can not justify the $$ to upgrade to ReportBuilder and
have used FastReports in .Net and was impressed with the product and the
support so prob. going to use that in the updated product. Plus the upgrade
price is more competitive if I need to do any behind the scenes scripting.

Jeremy


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Paul Hectors <Paul at powershield.com> wrote:

>  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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