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Nick

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What report-tool?
« on: February 27, 2014, 04:30:59 AM »
Hi all,

I'm new to reporting in NT. What do you use for reporting?
I guess that reports might be executed simultaneously so I'm not sure if all report-tools work well in this situation.

I think of generating PDF files.

TIA,
Nick

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Re: What report-tool?
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2014, 09:44:30 AM »
Hi Nick,

I currently use the normal Clarion reports with PDF-Tools.

Busy re-writing all the Clarion reports to use Fomin Report Builder with PDF-Tools.

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Johan de Klerk
Clarion 10, NT 11.57

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Re: What report-tool?
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2014, 09:54:49 AM »
Hi Johan,

Yes Fomin Reporter seems a good choice.
Do you have to pay for PDF-Tools per install/user? Bit expensive.

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Nick

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Re: What report-tool?
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2014, 01:51:32 PM »
Never mind, I see, a developers version.
Nick

Djordje Radovanovic

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Re: What report-tool?
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2014, 01:56:51 PM »
The best one.

StimulSoft Reports.

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Djole

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Re: What report-tool?
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2014, 03:18:54 PM »
>StimulSoft Reports.

Pretty complex and confusing at first glance.
Does the enduser/viewer need Flash to show the report?

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Nick

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Re: What report-tool?
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2014, 03:03:31 AM »
Looks very impressive. What do you use? The WebReport version?
How do you feed data to it?

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Nick

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Re: What report-tool?
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2014, 09:14:36 PM »
You can use anything as long as the result is a file (usually a PDF) which will get sent to the browser. There is direct support built n for normal clarion ABC or Legacy reports, Fomin, PDF-Tools, xPDF, Clarion EE PDF engine, CPCS and Right Reports. Personally I'm using Right Reports.

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Re: What report-tool?
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2014, 02:52:54 AM »
Yes I know this and it's fine.
The question was in particular aimed at how to feed data to SimulSoft reporting.
It's a very impressive tool that also offers a web-based designer.
They have some examples but these are meant for ASP.

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Re: What report-tool?
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2014, 02:56:22 AM »
that should be: StimulSoft
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Re: What report-tool?
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2014, 12:49:32 PM »
Your decision is good. I am using Ultimate but winform is enough. Just create .PDF and send it as a file. Nothing more. If you want more functionality use PHP version. I tried it with success but never bought. As I said winform is enough.

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Djole