Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-15 Thread Mark Derricutt
Hmm - time to answer my own postings :) Mark Derricutt wrote: This is a worry. Some add on third party things don't keep up with the play. Mark didn't you say earlier you couldn't get this to install? In this case it was I that didn't keep up with the play and installing the latest release

RE: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Belding
Russell wrote This reply is from a pragmatic Crystal Reports user not from someone who knows Crystal internals well. I'm using the Crystal Reports Print Engine 16 from a D1 application and some reports requiring a date range or name of person it brings back all records to the client pc for

RE: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Paul Ritchie
Someone earlier said CR7 does server side filtering. The manual says this is new to CR7. CR can export to RTF faily well but it cannot export correctly to MS Word preserving all the formatting... Is that generally a requirement of report writers?

RE: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Belding
At 13:36 15/03/99 +1300, you wrote: Someone earlier said CR7 does server side filtering. The manual says this is new to CR7. CR can export to RTF faily well but it cannot export correctly to MS Word preserving all the formatting... Is that generally a

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Mark Derricutt
Tony wrote: nice simple report builder to hand on to my customers instead of Crystal, but there does not appear to be much out there. As Steve points out, if Report Builder Pro provides a very nice royalty free end-user report designer. Report formats can be stored in BLOB fields inside a

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Tony Blomfield
Fair enough... So I'm preparing to shift my 16 bit apps report package into a D4 program and this will mean having two bde's installed on each clients server. One for the app and one for its reporting package. Regards Russell Belding Belding Computing Devices WINLAW, BIZXWORD, ENGPER.

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Belding
At 13:46 15/03/99 +1300, you wrote: Report Builder Pro provides a very nice royalty free end-user report designer. Report formats can be stored in BLOB fields inside a database which is very handy, or also saved to disk. The report designer has -full- query-by-example editors so that you're

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-14 Thread Belding
We are using CR6 on Access (900 MB) and MS SQL Server 6.5 databases up to 1.2Gb with no problems. So can you please let us in on the secret, How do you get a report to run in a reasonable time where you have a join involving say 8 tables (not an unreasonable number) accross a 900MB DB, where

RE: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-13 Thread Tony Blomfield
At 22:45 12/03/99 +1300, Tony wrote: The question I asked on my last mail was directed to the chap, who obviously new Crystal very well, but unfortunatly I haven't had a reply. To refresh your memory, the question was "Does Crystal still create real dumb SQL which can not be modified and which

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-12 Thread Tony Blomfield
-Original Message- From: Mark Derricutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, 12 March 1999 10:27 Subject: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4) Tony Blomfield wrote: In addition, IMO quick reports is very much

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-12 Thread Steve Peacocke
At 10:45 pm 12/3/1999 +1300, Tony Blomfield said: The question I asked on my last mail was directed to the chap, who obviously new Crystal very well, but unfortunatly I haven't had a reply. To refresh your memory, the question was "Does Crystal still create real dumb SQL which can not be modified

Re: [DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-12 Thread Mark Derricutt
Steve Peacocke wrote: I've been using QR but will have a looky at this RBPro due to the kind words and warm fuzzies experienced by others here. Steve, don't forget to check out the news.digatal-metaphors.com usenet server, just reading through should be very informative for you as well. Mark

[DUG]: Report Builder Pro (was Delphi and Crystal on NT4)

1999-03-11 Thread Mark Derricutt
Tony Blomfield wrote: In addition, IMO quick reports is very much simpler to use. Now we have Report Builder Pro, and that is a superb product. It is hard to imagine how Crystal could compete with RB Pro. *yay* another RBPro developer :) I've been using RBPro for a while now and find it to