STOP THE PRESSES! The odds of the Colts winning the Super Bowl might have just gotten a little better, because what I thought would never happen just got a little closer. I sent the guy an example of a report I did in 7.5 that showed the long text wrapping to multiple pages. Of course, I had to put some other pretty stuff on the report, and mentioned to him that I outputted to a PDF file without having to have Adobe installed .....
He started a conversation about buying 7.5 and running it alongside 6.5. He asked me for a quote and he's going to present it to the powers! Cross your fingers everyone! PS: I'll check into the XML option anyway. Thanks for the suggestion. Karen > Karen, > > I have no idea if this is a viable alternative, but I thought it might make > for an interesting discussion. > > What if you coded your report to output an XML file that could be used by a > third party report generator? XML is inherently hierarchical, as most > reports, and is pretty easy to code from what very little I know about it. > If those > big text fields are cut off when output to file you could just code it > longhand with writes. As Larry said, control seems more important than money, > so > even resorting to this may not be an issue. > > XML is something your customer can probably buy into, and *might* have the > advantage of being reproduced out of their new multi-million dollar system > (for multi-millions you would hope it could light up and spit nickels, so > what's > a little XML?<g>) that could be used by the XML report writer after R:Base > is retired. > > It's even conceivable to dump the entire database as XML and a third party > product take it from there. > > I've never used such a product, but if you google: XML "report writer" > there are apparently lots of choices. > > Ben >
