Steven,
Thanks for the reply. Our reporting needs are actually both. We need to dispaly some reports on the screen as an ad hoc reports that just have a couple of columns of data. For example show all the paid invoices for a vendor. I think just using flex for this will be ok. Then there is also a need for more formal reporting of yearly revenue by location. More summary reports that would be suited for a pdf generation or something like a cystal reports tool.
Adobe livecycle looks really cool, but might be a little large for what I need to do.
Thanks for all you input.
Jeff
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From: Steven Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 9:29:25 AM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Reporting options
Can you give us more insight into what kind of reporting you want to generate ? Is it tabular reports, or more formatted reports (such as invoices) ? A great deal of the work Adobe Consulting is doing right now, is leveraging Flex for the user-experience and data-capture, with Adobe Livecycle as a service-tier technology for the dynamic generation of PDF documents (note that Livecycle does a great deal more than just generation of these documents, through the various different Livecycle server technologies). There is a very successful marriage between these 2 technologies since the Adobe / Macromedia combination.
Depending upon the use-case in your application, that might be an architecture you consider, and there's certainly a wealth of experience on this list that can give you insight into combining Flex and Livecycle together.
Other approaches we've seen taken, include generation of HTML reports using technologies such as JSP, if you are just looking for tabular reports to be generated. And of course, you *can* print from a Flex application, but we have to be careful that "when all we have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".
Maybe if we understood the print/document generation/workflow requirements you have, we could propose more specific approaches.
Best wishes,
Steven
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Krueger
Sent: 12 May 2006 15:59
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] Reporting optionsHello,I was wondering if anyone has any opinions on how to do reporting in flex. I am using Flex 1.5. Couple of options I have thought of.Just return the results in a grid, but I have read in the news group that there is a bug when you get around 800 rows in a grid and try to print.Also read about ColdFusions report writer as another alternative.I thought about maybe a thrid party tool that has a html front end and try to include that frontend wrapped inside my applicaiton. Not sure if I can do that.But has anyone had any good experiences with a reporting setup?Thanks in advance.Jeff Krueger
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