I Undestand that, but what I need is a tool so I can create custom
reports for my clients ihtout havng to change the structure, simply by
sending a single file.
Crystal Reports, etc. are incerdible tools, but they require very
skilled hands in order to preoduce usable results, and most of my
users are far away from any of the skills required to use any kind of
sophsticated reporting engine, internal or external.
Most of them think the 4D report editor is far too complicated!
So in my case A4D would be the perfect tool.
Oh, and I charge for report programming :-)
Aparajita had a product like this that was essentially the A4D engine
with most of the HTML stuff stripped out. It does work well (I tried
an alpha copy), but A4D does basically the same thing for us and we're
already using it for web pages.
I looked at using something like A4D to create a full reporting
system, but it really doesn't compete with things like Crystal and
Jasper reports. Yes, the idea of using CSS and HTML for the reports
is not rocket science, but it is time consuming. A reporting IDE is
much more efficient and you can design once, deliver many (screen,
html, pdf, excel, text)
While we use javascript (like EXT framework) to deliver some basic
reports with web interfaces, more complex operations and deliveries
are simply more efficiently done through a report IDE.
Thanks,
Michael Check
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Randy Jaynes<[email protected]
> wrote:
Aparajita,
I like this idea too. SuperReport's scripting abilities have always
been
weak.
While the graphical design interface is nice, it hasn't really been
updated
or improved in 10 years or so, and it's seriously showing its age.
It's
getting harder and harder to create complex reports with all the
twists and
turns you have to do in order to make it work.
Having the A4D scripting ability to simply run on files would be
pretty
awesome. The scripting ability in A4D is second to none.
And like Alex says, it can be a separate product.
Thanks,
Randy
On Aug 18, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Alexander Heintz wrote:
Hi Aparajita,
would it be thinkable to have a "lite" Version of A4D to use as a
scripting engine?
It would only execute A4D text files from the execute file command
and
would not do any sessions, cokies, and all the other fance web
server stuff,
so it really could only be used to execute stand alone a4d files
localy.
This could then be used a a superb replacemnt for SRP, FootRunner
and
would facilitat the creation of truly great 4D aplications.
At the same time it could offer you new marktet oportunities.
What do you think?
cheers,
Alex
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