Hi Darren, It's not quite that hard... hell, even I can do it....
There is no real alternative to Crystal. I guess BusinessObjects WebIntelligence is close, but it would be overkill. We use both here, but put to different puposes... Scott Thornton, Programmer Application Development Information Services and Telecommunications Hunter-New England Area Health Service Phone JHH +61 2 49214193 RNH +61 2 49236078 Fax +61 2 49214191 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/12/2004 11:52:39 am >>> My first question is: Why? Do you have some amazingly compeling reason to consider using crystal? Do you already own the correct license version of crystal that you will need to work with CF? Do you already have a large amount of crystal experience to draw on? My frank and honest opinion of this is that Crystal is a technology that Macromedia has forgotten about. It used to work back in the Allaire days, but no one at Macromedia ever bothered with it. We tried to use it back when I was at Alpha, and we had a Crystal guru on board to help too, and we just couldn't get CF to talk to it. It seemed that no-one has actually done it for ages, and all sorts of bits are missing from CF that are needed to make it work. We got a few hints and tips from people, but they were really only suggestions about what people thought might be required, not what they are actually using to make it work. There were a couple of knowledge base articles at MM dealing with this, and I think there were some specific hot fixes to resolve some of the problems. Another issue is that you can't just hook it up to any version of crystal. It will only hook up and be legal with certain, expensive, versions of crystal. You'll need to talk to your local Crystal rep, and be very clear about what you want it to do, and be prepared to get the wrong info a few times. To be perfectly honest, the amount of stuffing around you're going to have to do, and the chasing of people that you're going to have to do, I'd seriously have to wonder whether the Blackstone release was actually (comparitively) that far off that I wouldn't consider it, or at least develop under the beta and be prepared to release on an early adopters deal from Macromedia. I personally can't see any compelling reason that would give you returns from using Crystal that would outweigh the economic, effort and pain costs that using it will make you suffer Regards Darren Tracey Systems Analyst HR Systems and FastTrack, Web and Integration Services p: + 61 7 3232 4091 (x64091) f: + 61 7 3232 4744 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] l: Lvl 3, 388 Queen St Brisbane QLD 4000 m: Suncorp IPC IT048, GPO Box 1453, Brisbane QLD 4000 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 8 December 2004 10:02 AM > To: CFAussie Mailing List > Subject: [cfaussie] Crystal Reports War Injuries. > > Hi All, > > > > I'm looking into using CFMX & Crystal Reports together, and I've noticed a > lot of reading on "It's too hard". Who here uses the products together and > can recommend any tips/pointers that may aid me. > > > > *(Oh, before you ask. yes I know about Blackstone's CFDocument and No its > not a solution *yet* I can use - ie alternatives are already known *FOP* > etc). > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > Regards, > > Scott Barnes > > Senior Network Engineer > > Goro Nickel Project > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: > http://lists.daemon.com.au/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail is sent by Suncorp-Metway Limited ABN 66 010 831 722 or one of its related entities ("Suncorp"). Suncorp may be contacted at Level 18, 36 Wickham Terrace, Brisbane or on 13 11 55 or at suncorp.com.au. The content of this e-mail is the view of the sender or stated author and does not necessarily reflect the view of Suncorp. The content, including attachments, is a confidential communication between Suncorp and the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, disclosure or copying of this e-mail, including attachments, is unauthorised and expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please contact the sender immediately and delete the e-mail and any attachments from your system. If this e-mail constitutes a commercial message of a type that you no longer wish to receive please reply to this e-mail by typing Unsubscribe in the subject line. --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
