OK, Flex is wonderful, but eventually the end user is gonna want some reports. Simple, basic, printable tabular reports.
What tools are the folks here using? What would I like? I would like a tool similar to flex, but oriented towards paper. Basically a gui to build the report layout, with bindable fields and a backend language to do everything else. The last piece would be a report renderer that output PDF. It would be nice if it output Excel as well, but not a requirement. What would I like to avoid? BI! I don't really want a full blown tool that tries to be everything to everybody, Don't want the care and feeding of a server, don't need users to create their own reports, don't need report criteria entry. I do want to be able to integrate the runtime easily from Flex by passing report criteria from user actions to the report, so that it looks like one seamless application. Any suggestions? Paul
