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Which Report Writer

Ger Cannoll — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:21:04 GMT

Hi.

I am wondering what folks here use as a report writer, other than SSRS and Perpetuum, both of which I have ruled out

The criteria is Ease of use for the end user, and to be able to embed reports reasonably easily into an app.

I would welcome any suggestions

RE: Which Report Writer

Bill Cunnien — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:21:04 GMT

I didn't know that Crystal Reports had a free run-time designer. I'll have to look into that. Wasn't the run-time designer in a server product (aka $$$)? If I remember correctly, the Crystal Reports server environment is a bit tricky. It is probably very nice, if you can get it going, but I just don't have the time and energy to work it all out. Fortunately, I do not have to deal with pivot grids in our reporting; therefore, for me, DevEx wins the day.

RE: Which Report Writer

Peter Jones — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:34:45 GMT

Hi Gerard,

We use DevEx for the UI and I was keen to use the DevEx report writer. It checked out very well I must say but couldn't handle our Pivot Grid style reports the way we needed so we stayed with the tried and trusted Crystal Reports approach (free with VS). People seem to have a downer on Crystal Reports - maybe I'm missing something but it has always seemed like a very good product to me.

Cheers, Peter

RE: Which Report Writer

Ger Cannoll — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:34:59 GMT

Thanks for replying. Have you used this tool and embedded it in a SF app..just wondering is there a lot of code involved

RE: Which Report Writer

Bill Cunnien — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:16:36 GMT

My vote . . . Developer Express

http://www.devexpress.com/Products/NET/Reporting/

For what it is worth, I just learned how to take any control on a Windows Form and place it on a DevEx Report. For example, I have some nice ListViews that I am displaying to the user. Without any extra data retrieval, I am able to copy the ListViews right onto a report. It is pretty slick.

We haven't gotten into the end-user designing at run-time, but they have a nice tool to do just that, too.

Happy hunting,
Bill

RE: Which Report Writer

Russell Scott Brown — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:57:34 GMT

Check out Telerik Reporting at:

http://www.telerik.com/products/reporting.aspx

They have a trial version.

RE: Which Report Writer

Keith Chisarik — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:22:34 GMT

We use ActiveReports and it has worked well for us, might be worth a try.