[AccessD] Using Access for Reports w/an ASP app?

Christopher Hawkins clh at christopherhawkins.com
Fri Mar 19 12:27:42 CST 2004


Mark,

If I'm reading this right, it doesn't support reportign on demand -
I'd have to save a copy of each report in .snp format in order for
the users to view them in the SnapShot viewer.  Am I missing
something?

-C-


---- Original Message ----
From: Mark.Mitsules at ngc.com
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com, 
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Using Access for Reports w/an ASP app?
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:09:18 -0500

>Cheap...sure...Snapshot Viewer. 
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/accessdev/articles/snapshot.htm?gssnb=1
>
>See 
>http://www.microsoft.com/accessdev/articles/snapshot.htm?gssnb=1#WWW
>
>
>
>Mark
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher Hawkins [mailto:clh at christopherhawkins.com] 
>Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 12:03 PM
>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: [AccessD] Using Access for Reports w/an ASP app?
>
>
>Greetings!
>
>Here's my deal - I have a spectacularly cheap client who brought me
>on to fix an Access application that was botched by another
>programmer (90% of my business falls into this category.  :P), but
>they've decided that Access is at least partly to blame for the
>failure of the project (again, I say :P).
>
>So they want me to re-write the front-end in ASP.  No problem there -
>most of the problems are in the UI; the schema is surprisingly good,
>considering the UI (it's truly poor).
>
>The roadblock I'm encountering is this:  how do I make sure they can
>still access their reports?  They have some pretty complex reports in
>that Access app, and they won't pay for Crystal.
>
>I was thinking that I'd leave a copy of their Access mdb on the web
>server and then write a dll that would open a report, write it ti
>pdf, and then return it to the browser.  The only problem is...I have
>no idea how to do that.  I also don't know if it's a smart thing to
>do.  I also don't knwo if they'll want to pay for the dev time.
>
>Barring the above idea, is anyone aware of a cheap or free web
>reporting utility/tool/component that I can use to either leverage
>their existing reports, or re-create them for web use without having
>to go with something expensive like Crystal?
>
>
>-Christopher-
>
>
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