Re: GUI from Mv code Re: Crystal Reports

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Mark,
   Cubes are a way of displaying data. All those "1NF is the only way" 
people discovered that flat data makes doesn't server whole categories 
of users. So they invented cross-linked (usually browser viewable)  
report format where for example:

  
            SALES      OVERHEAD
   01/01/04 $1,000,000    $657,823

Would be displayed and you can click on the dollar amounts to 'drill 
down' into the details. On that page, you should be able to drill down 
through a detail like 'expenses' to see the details of that value, and 
so on.

   - Charles "CB3" Barouch

Mark Johnson wrote:

Not to be out of touch, but what is a Sales Cube. I saw Swordfish and I hope
that itn't it.
Thanks.

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In a message dated 4/18/2004 10:18:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
   

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For example, aligning this back to the original post, rather than
     

attempting to use CR for reporting, I'd simply create a Viságe.BIT cube to
give the users free-form enquiry and data exploration facilities into their
UV database. In our case we have replaced >300 sales analysis reports
currently provided in our R5 system with a single Sales Cube -   and this is
one of the facilities that makes Viságe "better" than
 

AccuTerm !
     

Warning! Salesman quote!
C'mon Ross :) A dataset that includes 50 fields and I only want to see 6
   

on my report.  So you replace that report with a cube where I (the user)
have to figure out exactly what I want to see, build the proper query
statement, format statement, display statement etc and then figure out how
to tell the system to remember my statement so next time I don't have to
THAT all again.
 

You replaced the 300 reports, with one huge cube where you STILL have
   

users recreating (or trying to) their original 300 reports...
 

  Users don't want to see 50 fields, they want to see the 6 fields
   

they've been analyzing for the past 3 years ...
 

Will
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