This is not a sell fox over crystal. International Paper bought into crystal already. Se of these reports are in year eight now and they still work.
This is maulti billion dollar company. Having a solution that opperates across the globe and presents reports onthe web is what they wantend. Nothing loaded locally. Sent from my iPhone Stephen Russell 901.246-0159 On Nov 7, 2009, at 11:23 AM, "ReportSculptor" <ad...@report- sculptor.com> wrote: > Hi Stephen > > Have look at www.report-sculptor.com > > You can do this kind of complex reports in pure fox. > > One of the samples there shows simillar report > (Multipage Tax Form) which is done as native foxpro page frame. > You can have user fill it up and print it in WYSIWYG mode. > > Unlike CR , RS cost just $ 0.00 > > RS have it's forum > > Cheers :) > Sergio > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Russell [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 9:06 PM > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: Re: [NF] A Crystal Reports FORUM Like THIS? > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote: >> Kurt Wendt wrote: >>> Thank you Tracy AND to Stephen for your feedback. Its really too bad >>> there isn't more resources out there for help in CR - but, maybe it >>> goes to show how UnPopular it is - as Stephen has hinted at! >> >> With Crystal, you get vendor support if you pay for it. If the person >> at the helpdesk has no clue, you can ask for a manager who has no >> clue. And your boss will be happy seeing you actively trying to solve >> the problem. What more do you need? :) > ----------------- > > Crystal is very good at what it does. Making it happen is the > problem. > > Making a change to a table that you have to bring in a replacement > one is my > biggest reason to get pissy with Crystal. > > Having dated systems like I do for Tax Reporting for International > Paper, > Crystal just drives me up the wall! But it is what they want, and > it is > something that I know. > > They keep the data by tax year in views from the Oracle system. > They make a > copy of every report for the new Tax year to keep everything > separate with > respect to tax law changes. > > Switching the new view for the old one is not pleasant. Now do that > to > maybe 75+ - reports. > > But it does pay off bills. > > > -- > Stephen Russell > Sr. Production Systems Programmer > SQL Server DBA > Web and Winform Development > Independent Contractor > Memphis TN > > 901.246-0159 > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
