The Reporting Problem

[Bernard Devlin]

Hi Peter,

I sympathise with you concerning the relative neglect of Linux as a
platform.  Does Quartam Reports not work on Linux?  I thought that Jan
was going to release a Layout Builder for Linux?

But by keeping your data tied to the card model, I think you are
limiting yourself.  From my understanding, you can certainly export a
CSV file from Rev and import that into a spreadsheet for further
formatting/analysis.  However, from your description of the complexity
involved in your current reporting, it sounds like you need a better
way to access and manipulate the data.  I think you would be better
served to keep your data in a SQL-database.  The aggregation/grouping
functions in SQL would easily manage the reports you describe.

What kinds of things are you wanting to do in your reporting that you
currently cannot do?

Bernard

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Peter
Alcibiades<palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> We Linux users do not have access to full versions of Quartam, so have to
> contain our disappointment manfully and find another way.