[DUG] Reporting Engines

[Colin Fraser]

Hi Garry,

All sorts of reports... basically a report is what the end customer in our
business sees and basically pays for.

It was quite a few years ago when we made the change, but we had been using
Report Builder for a few years also, and were struggling with some things.

We switched to Fast Report and found we could do things more easily than we
could in Report Builder.

It was a big change as we had quite a few reports in Report Builder, but I
can remember that we as a team thought it was well worth the change... It
was many years ago, so we can't recall exactly why :-)

Now we dynamically put all sorts of sub-reports into the finished reports,
have graphing, quite a variety really.

I see some mentions of longevity, Fast Reports has been around for many
years too.

Summary is, we switched and haven't looked back... maybe Report Builder has
caught up since then, mind you Fast Reports keeps up with their versions
too.

Sorry I can't provide more concrete reasons :-)


Regards
Colin

On 2 September 2015 at 09:52, David Brennan <dugdavid at dbsolutions.co.nz>
wrote:

> Hi Colin,
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> Out of curiousity, what sort of reports do you output? Just trying to
> evaluate if we should be looking at FastReport sometime.
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> Regards,
>
> David.
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>
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> *From:* delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz [mailto:
> delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz] *On Behalf Of *Colin Fraser
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 2 September 2015 8:43 a.m.
> *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Reporting Engines
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> As I mentioned before, we prefer FastReport...
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> What I did not mention is that we moved from Report Builder to fast
> report, and found the move beneficial...
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>
> Regards
>
> Colin
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>
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> On 1 September 2015 at 22:07, Steve Peacocke <steve at peacocke.net> wrote:
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> Actually, I found reportbuilder to have been the best reporting engines I
> have ever used.
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> It has been especially useful for even those really difficult, single
> page, report everything, several reports on the single page, color &
> graphs, reports that had to go out every month.
>
> Steve
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> On 1/09/2015, at 9:47 pm, Paul Hectors <Paul at powershield.com> wrote:
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> Hi Alister,
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> I am sorry but I do not share Tony’s confidence in ReportBuilder.
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> We use ReportBuilder for Delphi 2007 at PowerShield. Support is very good,
> the product is average. It has a number of quirks that had to be
> compensated for. One of the things I dislike is the lack of information it
> provides when you do something wrong.
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> I am not sure if I would select ReportBuilder again.
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> Best regards,
>
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>
> Paul
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> *From:* delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz [
> mailto:delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz
> <delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz>] *On Behalf Of *Alister Christie
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 1 September 2015 9:38 a.m.
> *To:* delphi at delphi.org.nz
> *Subject:* [DUG] Reporting Engines
>
>
>
> We are looking at report engines in Delphi and was wondering if any DUG
> members would like to comment.  Currently we are leaning towards
> FastReports - what are other members using, and are they happy?
>
>
> Alister Christie
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