Nine to Five Reports

[Till Bandi]

> I got little to no feedback on it

at least I tried to give feedback - but I think I never got an answer - 
I was delightet and hoped that you would finish the report generator. 
It would probably not do everything the Nine to Five package did (does) 
but you can script a lot outside, so this would not hurt to much. For 
me the Beta did not work, I think it was the page setup with A4, but 
the potential was evident!

Couldn't you get the project - as is - running with Revolution 2? .... 
and then let us
> have the ultimate cross platform report generator in Rev
later?

Till


Am Samstag, 31.05.03 um 20:41 Uhr schrieb Tuviah M Snyder:

>> What I eventually heard was that the RunRev people felt that all of 
>> the
>> features offered by Reports would ultimately be better implemented
>> totally within the Revolution environment - "ultimately" seeming to be
>> the operative term.
> Hi Alan. I remember talking with you at MacWorld, and look forward to
> discussing this in more detail this July.
>
> I think the big problem with writing a reports package, is coming up 
> with
> something easy enough and powerful enough that developers use it. As
> Richard stated many apps need to print custom reports, and it may be
> easier to just roll your own.
>
> RunRev 2.0 features a new report generator, a powerful and well tested
> stack based report generator, and I'm not sure how many people have 
> even
> tried it out.
>
> I wrote a report generator 5 years ago for MetaCard called the MetaCard
> Report Generator which featured fully customizable headers/footers,
> templates, a Full scripting API, ect, expressions, ect.
>
> http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/contributors/mcrg.htm
>
> I honestly don't know if anyone actually used it in an application, I 
> got
> little to no feedback on it, and it never went out of beta. Perhaps it
> was too complex?!
>
> So I've moved to the conclusion that what we need is a report generator
> based on SQL along the lines of Crystal Reports, DBReports, and various
> other reporting packages, or even perhaps tighter integration with such
> packages. Along with things like step by step Query Wizards, prebuilt
> Templates, possible support for stacks as data sources, an Open
> extensible scripting API so developers can write their own printing
> modules, and additional integration with local databases
> (Access/Valentina) perhaps we can have the ultimate cross platform 
> report
> generator in Rev.
>
> Tuviah Snyder <tuviah at runrev.com> <http://www.runrev.com/>
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