We would have looked at moving over to Version 7 and may still do for the flash forms stuff, but the lack of certain things and bugs that have been there right through the beta will stop me from looking at it for a long time.
Issue #1: PDF / Flashpaper reporting, when you browser a site that generates one of these new reports via CF 7 if the url is www.mydomain.com.au/test/ then the report will never generate and instead will generate the bytecode to the screen of the browser, after all the talks I had with certain MM developers on this they could never find the problem. Then I discovered that if I was to type this into the url www.mydomain.com.au/test with the trailing forward slash the report would actually work and continue to work from that point on. The fact that this was report before the release of Blackstone I am appauled that it was released with this bug still in it. Issue #2: We require our reports to (Crystal) be able to have boxes and lines that span multiple sections details, footer, header etc so that we can create pretty looking invoices, quotes, picking slips etc. This was never looked at as a feature and when I added this request I was told it will be available in sp5 does that mean Service Pack 5, if that is the case we will never switch to this for that reason. Issue #3: We have setup a lot of intranet solutions that require Crystal to print Invoices, quotes etc and have a very solid solution, for us to even look at CF 7.0 we would be looking at removing the need to have to have a crystal license to do our job, and the major thing that stops us from this with cf 7.0 is server side printing. When I posted this as a feature request I had Ben Forta come back with the smart comment of security issues, no one was interested in the fact that we use this feature heavily, and is available in competing products namely the jasper report engine that blackstone licensed to use for cf 7.0. Anyway, we have no need for any of the other extra features at this stage, but we may consider using the event gateways in the future, but I could write the code to do the same thing in java for less of the cost to upgrade to the enterprise version anyway. And unless the 3 issues that I have described are fixed I doubt we will switch in a hurry. Regards Andrew Scott Technical Consultant NuSphere Pty Ltd Level 2/33 Bank Street South Melbourne, Victoria, 3205 Phone: 03 9686 0485 - Fax: 03 9699 7976 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of M@ Bourke Sent: Monday, 14 February 2005 11:10 AM To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] Why your jumping to CF 7 Hi All, Just a question, well more of a 1 question survey, for those moving to CF 7 whats your reason ? A new must have feature or your company just likes to use the latest. why I'm at it. why are you not moving to CF 7 ? no need to spend cash ? waiting for a few bugs to be found and fixed ? other etc. Kind Regards M@ --- 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/
