(PLUG) As far as I know there is only one reportwriter by Farata Systems that is written in Flex at this time and it is available @ myflex.org. There should be some demos there as well as user manual and trial versions. It has both developers version ( Eclipse plugin that allows you to layout and compile/preview report without need to go to the application ) and "server" version (you provide SQL and initial editing, publish to DB, end-user can modify it any way they want). PDF is automatic, but requires LCDS license (XDP option), Excel export is built-in. Personally, the best way to see if it matches your needs is to contact the company for specific question as features are being added daily and there are tons of side projects (OLAP, DataForms, etc.) that fall in domain of business application tooling
Hope this helps Anatole Tartakovsky On 10/23/07, aceoohay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > >
