Microsoft SQL Reporting Services is free with SQL and it is a lot like Crystal. You use Visual Studio as the report builder and it works well and ports to the Web. The only problem is that I have yet to hear about anyone using ColdFusion to display the reports on CF Web pages.
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:21:45 -0500 "Christopher Jordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm in need of a visual report builder. Can anyone tell >me if they have > experience with either Adobe's Report Builder (which >I've downloaded and > played with a little bit) or Jasper Reports/iReport? >We're up in the air > over using PHP or CF. I'm pushing CF and my boss is >pushing PHP (*sigh*). > He's also insistent on being able to build the report >visually, like he does > in Fox Pro, or like using Crystal (except that's too >expensive). I almost > think I've got him convinced that we need to use CF, but >he's pushing back > hard on me to come up with reasons why we can't use PHP >(not really why CF > would be better, but why PHP would be worse/slower). >I've already mentioned > to him that Jasper is written in Java and that CF can >talk natively to all > the objects, and that to do the same in PHP requires a >third party (all be > it open source) PHP/Java bridge, and then jumping >through several hoops. > This only turned him off to the idea of JasperReports, >not to the idea of > using PHP. > > Any information on how folks are typically generating >complex reports > (visually) would be great. Heck any help in general >would be fantastic. > > Thanks, > Chris > > -- > http://cjordan.us > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:286994 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
