I've rolled my own before using nothing but CF . Another product that I am looking at is intellivew. (http://www.intelliview.com) Also, for Oracle, there is Oracle Reports -- don't know much about that, but it looks pretty interesting.
Tim P. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 8:07 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: F-ing Crystal Reports So, what's a better product to buy? -Ben > Because Crystal is a sorry piece of crap for software. I am not > exaggerating when I say that of all the software I have ever tried used in > the past 10 years, Crystal has got to be the buggiest and worst piece of > crap I have ever used. > > An example: You cannot repeat the page header on every page. I mean come > on! This is a "reporting" package and it is a report header. All I want is > the same header to show on every page of the report. Believe it or not, > Crystal doesn't do it and you have to duplicate the header on every section > of your report. > > I even have a post it note on my monitor at work where I keep track of how > many times crystal has crashed on me. (Right now, it shows 14 for one > week). > > Sorry, I have been dealing with Crystal for the past few months and I had > to vent. > > Tim P. > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 3:30 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: F-ing Crystal Reports > > > So the new Crystal Reports web add on that comes with version 8.5 will not > work on computers with more than one IP address! > > The system works like this: > > There is a Crystal Enterprise Server. IIS connects to via TCP/IP and a Web > Connector, similar to the way Jrun used to connect. Here you can have the > Report server on a box all by itself not sharing processor with the web > server. > > But lets say you don't need another server because the report load will be > low, and you can't afford a new server. > > Well it still tries to connect via TCP/IP and picks the IP it uses somewhat > randomly. Sometimes it works, most times it doesn't. This is something they > have just added to the software! > > Crystal documents this, they say sorry, it won't work. > > Why!!! Why!!! > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
