Yep and yep.
The reports currently output from my application to either paper or PDF,
with PDF being the default. The reason for the PDF is because my users
all LOVE to kill trees and can't imagine life without going through a
ream of paper per day, or more. Seriously. And I say this NOT because
I'm a tree hugger...I just still haven't given up completely on the
digital office dream.
When I switched all the reports over to PDF I was hoping they would
embrace the concept of "look, here's your report on screen and it looks
EXACTLY like it would on paper! Even better because it's color!" And, if
they are so inclined, they're only a button click away from emailing the
PDF, or (groan) printing it to paper. But even better, you can save the
PDF and refer to it later just like paper. (I think I'm preaching to the
choir here...)
What they are currently doing is printing, to paper, a report at 8am,
then the same report at 3pm and a girl sits with a ruler on each page,
side by side, looking left/right left/right till she gets cross-eyed and
then she takes a break and another girl sits in her place. (attempt at
humor is only slightly different than reality.)
I was on-site with this client most of yesterday and after a discussion
of what she was doing I offered to come up with a better way. Now I'm
hoping to just throw $0 or a few bucks at the situation and provide
something that is pretty much the same thing, but faster and more
accurate. Thus, my request for whether anyone was aware of a similar
utility. :)
Thanks!
Mike
Stephen Russell wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Mike Copeland <[email protected]> wrote:
Either because
a) I'm lazy or
b) while that would work, it would take time to implement.
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Love honesty.
PDF is not text so you might have to pay for your solution.
Hooking into the existing code to find how report is run is easy. Do you
still need the PDF or was that just to compare off of?
Inserting the dataset into a table before you render the report is pretty
easy. All you need is a NEW DiffCheck to compare those rows.
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