[AccessD] Access and Crystal Reports

Shamil,

True, CR allows independent sections in reports, and true this can be a
useful feature.  But in my experience there never has been a report that
I had to create that needed this feature.

My last word on this thread is this:  Since everybody's previous
experiences and personal preferences are different, there is no one best
tool for everybody.  Of the tools that are available to you and you are
comfortable using, try to pick the one that is most suitable for the
problem at hand.

Have a nice day Shamil.

Charles Wortz
Software Development Division
Texas Education Agency
1701 N. Congress Ave
Austin, TX 78701-1494
512-463-9493
CWortz at tea.state.tx.us



-----Original Message-----
From: Shamil Salakhetdinov [mailto:shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru] 
Sent: Thursday 2003 Mar 06 15:59
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access and Crystal Reports

> Access 2002 and CR 9.0 are
> almost identical in their feature sets.
Charles,

I thought the same but then I made approx. 50 real-life CR reports for
HRM/Payroll system and my customer was a real guru in both HRM/Payroll
programming/reporting and CR itself (I worked as his subcontractor) -
and I soon realized that despite the fact that the feature set of MS
Access and CR seems to be very similar, the real power of CR is in its
unique and looking at first not very significant feature of allowing to
have and manipulate on runtime of several (as many as you wish)
independent sections/areas of Report Header/Footer, Page Header/Footer,
Group Header/Footer and Details...

The only area where I've found MS Access "beats" CR 8.x, which I used,
is when you need in CR to copy and paste (or cut and paste) a group of
controls within one report or between reports - here CR sometimes goes
"crazy" and you need to realigh controls manualy after paste
operation...

Charles, I'd not like to have this thread to become"religious" debate
"CR vs. MS Access report generator" - let's stop it? - after your
contr-arguments if you wish! :)

Shamil