Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Sat Mar 8 01:28:01 CST 2003
Very good point. I've watched this thread from the outside, for two reasons. I personally have never made a CR report, and at best I consider myself an 'amatuer' at report generation in Access. When it comes to making reports in Access, I can do some pretty nifty stuff with code, making stupendous 'special' reports. However, there are people where I work that do nothing but generate reports using the wizards, and then tweaking all sorts of things. I have had to go into these reports from time to time, and I must admit that they get them to do exactly what they want with relatively little fuss. That is why I consider myself an amatuer at the report level, because half the time I would have jumped to VBA....(go figure), instead of using the solutions that were used. One question. Does CR have a 'program' language that you can run in the background of a report? (Not just macro like, but VBA like, where you can interface with the OS if you want type stuff....) Drew -----Original Message----- From: Wortz, Charles [mailto:CWortz at tea.state.tx.us] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 7:13 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [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 _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com