Re: report builder similar to ms access

2010-10-08 Thread Richard White
thanks for the replies Hi, we would like to include a feature into our software that allows users to create any report they like to display their data - similar to the reports feature in ms access does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to approach this thanks

report builder similar to ms access

2010-10-07 Thread Richard White
Hi, we would like to include a feature into our software that allows users to create any report they like to display their data - similar to the reports feature in ms access does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to approach this thanks

Re: report builder similar to ms access

2010-10-07 Thread James Holmes
Is the cf reporting feature not suitable? -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 7 October 2010 20:25, Richard White rich...@j7is.co.uk wrote: Hi, we would like to include a feature into our software that allows users to create any report they like to

Re: report builder similar to ms access

2010-10-07 Thread Richard White
thanks for the reply. correct me if im wrong as although i have looked at it i dont know it in depth, i thought it was inflexible as it wouldnt allow users to quickly create their own reports as they would in ms access thanks Is the cf reporting feature not suitable? -- WSS4CF -

Re: report builder similar to ms access

2010-10-07 Thread denstar
The most dynamical thing I've found so far is using JasperServer. It doesn't quite let you create free-form reports, but it has a lot of stuff you can use that lets the end user configure a report, and can produce reports in like 15 different formats. It is awesome. Eventually I'll get around

Re: report builder similar to ms access

2010-10-07 Thread Gerald Guido
Probably not ideal but throwing it out there as an option.. One way to do it is to actually use MS Access. If you can create an ODBC data source pointing to a read only account on the database you can do an import and link the tables to the database. You can set the permissions on the