Scott, Also although the new features in blackstone on CR and reporting are very nice, we also have the ability to save them in any of the following formats as well.
Word Document (.doc) Excel Spreadsheet (.xls) PDF (.pdf) Text (.txt) CSV (.csv) Admittedly some of those formats are very useless, but it does work and we use it for one of our clients. Also I am not too sure on how blackstone will really work on this issue, but when I begun using CR I found that CR would store the database connection information into the report. What this means is that if we wanted to use the same report on another client we would have to physically open the report change the required information and resave the report for that client. My tag (cfc) allows for the user to create a report, and be able to change anything in that report the datasource name, database name, and even the table name (to be finished, still working on this part). It allows for the report to be saved as the same name or even saves it as another name if you wanted it too, as well as by creating it in any of the above formats that I mentioned earlier. We can also do server side printing as of CR10, and we use this a lot and is something that blackstone does not support and will not support, and as our intranet systems use this feature heavily we will continue with CR instead of blackstone on this method. Like I stated earlier I searched high and low on the net for information regarding crystal reports and coldfusion and found nothing, so there was a lot of R&D into this tag, if you would like to know anything I am more than willing to help you with any of your questions. Regards, Andrew Scott --- 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/
