Neven, It is at least 100 years since I last used Crystal. Can Crystal reports do OLAP cubes?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Neven MacEwan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Trevor Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [DUG] OLAP Cubes > Trevor > > What about Crystal Reports? > > Trevor Jones wrote: > > >Hi, > > Does anyone use these? > > > >I have a bunch of data coming from a FireBird database that I need to apply > >some OLAP components to deal with. > > > >The original Decision cube which came with delphi (some versions ago) > >wouldn't work without the BDE, I've found some stuff which will work in D6 > >(but is as buggy as hell), and won't work at all in D7 'coz apparently my D7 > >professional license is not up to the task. > > > >I've also found the HierCube components, but their eval version is > >sufficiently broken that I can't use it to evaluate whether or not it is up > >to the task. > > > >I suppose I could leverage Excel to do the job, but I don't own a copy of > >Excel, and the OpenOffice DataPilot is probably sufficiently different that > >I would be painting myself into a corner if I tried to use that. > > > >All I need is seven dimensions with a single COUNT summary, grid and chart > >support, and toast and caviar available on demand. Not much to ask. > > > >WL Decision Cube spits the dummy at more than 5 dimensions (yes I have the > >max dimensions property set correctly), and dies an ugly death whenever I > >refresh the dataset. > > > >I was joking about the toast and caviar. > > > >Any recommendations? > > > >Trevor > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Delphi mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > > > > > > > > > -- > Neven MacEwan (B.E. E&E) > Ph. 09 621 001 Mob. 0274 749062 > > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
