[Openroad-users] Reporting options.

[Andrew]

Wow, lots of options.

Thanks to all who contributed.

I will go away now and review my options (when I can).

If I find anything spectacular I will report back to the group.

Regards,
Andrew.


Antill, Jim wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I did write a set of routines to use MS-Word, Excel etc. a while back 
> using Office 2000 and above. I remember Christian, myself and a few 
> others exchanged information during the ongoing development of this 
> area of code. Let me know if you any further info on this.
>  
> I also wrote a userclass that allowed an HTML report to be built up. 
> The class was simple, just building the HTML in a StringObject and 
> writing it out to a file which could then be viewed. The class 
> contains methods to add tables, images etc. When the HTML is then 
> combined with CSS some nice effects can be produced. Again, if you 
> want any info on this let me know.
>  
> The HTML route is the one I take for most reports now as the HTML 
> files are small, easily viewed, stored, mailed to other users etc. 
> Previously I used OR Reporter which I found good if a little fiddly at 
> times. If I was revisiting the whole thing now I'd be looking closely 
> into the XSLT stuff.
>  
> Are there any new Reporting developments in OR2006?
>  
> Regards,
> Jim
>
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>     *Sent:* 03 March 2007 21:53
>     *To:* International OpenROAD Users
>     *Subject:* Re: [Openroad-users] Reporting options.
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>     Hello Andrew,
>      
>     I wrote a long time ago VB6 ActiveX controls to drive MS-Excel and
>     MS-Word. from OR4:
>     open a new document/sheet, add text, change format,...
>      
>     Unfortunately m desktop crashed since that time, with no safe copy
>     of course :(,
>     but I shared them with Kim Ginnerup ( Hello Kim )
>     and someone else but I don't remember who ( Jim Antill but not sure )
>      
>     maybe they can share them with you
>      
>     Regards
>     Christian
>
>         ----- Original Message -----
>         *From:* Andrew <mailto:andrew at delta-link.com.au>
>         *To:* International OpenROAD Users
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>         *Sent:* Friday, March 02, 2007 3:12 AM
>         *Subject:* [Openroad-users] Reporting options.
>
>         Hi All,
>
>         I know this issue has been bought up before but I need to
>         know if anyone has made any wonderful discoveries lately
>         in the world of reporting.
>
>         We have looked at OR's Reporter, Crystal Reports and the
>         old Ingres RWs but need something else.
>
>         We are printing reports that currently use PCL codes and
>         would like to move to postscript/html/pdf/word docs or anything
>         else that will allow us to put data into tables (varying columns,
>         rows, widths and heights) with all nice extras - bold, underline,
>         fonts selection, tick boxes, shading, etc.
>
>         The best end result would be to have something the users
>         can adjust as required.
>
>         As usual, cost is a great factor in our choice.
>
>         Any help will greatly be appreciated.
>
>         Regards,
>         Andrew.
>
>
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