In case anyone cares I found a tool that does what I want, no more and no less. As an added benefit it is Open Source.
The tool is fyiReporting, at http://www.fyireporting.com it uses the M$ "Report Definition Language" (rdl spec). It has a gui IDE and a renderer that can be called from web apps. I have begun using it, and it is very easy to use (a few hours and you can crank out a decent looking report, after that, a simple report can be done in minutes) reasonably bug free, and all it requires is a couple of dll's and an .aspx file put on the server. The only thing it doesn't have that would be nice is output to Excel, but that is not high on my priority list. The only thing that I would improve is the documentation, but the good news it's pretty simple to setup and use. My personal opinion is that someone should use the same M$ spec and write a version of the renderer for PHP & Java. Since the IDE is simple, to use and fairlyy robust, converting that could come later, if ever. Paul --- In [email protected], Scott - FastLane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In case you are interested in programmatically generating PDFs... you > can find a .NET port of the iText library here > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextdotnet>. A quick google search > also turned up C# and other versions as well. > > hth > Scott > > Scott Melby > Founder, Fast Lane Software LLC > http://www.fastlanesw.com > > > > aceoohay wrote: > > > > Thanks for the replies. > > > > My backend is ASP.NET (Visual Web Developer Express Edition). > > > > I have contacted Yakov Fain of Farata Systems via e-mail, and their > > product is a full blown report generator with user designed reports > > etc. Their system ClearBI, unless something has changed, requires > > Apache/Tomcat for hosting the reports, and has more overhead than I > > want. > > > > How difficult is it to implement Ruport for a non Ruby system? > > > > If there was something similar to the old FoxPro reporting tool that > > was available for generating reports, that would satisfy most of what > > I need. > > > > Paul > > > > >
