[AccessD] Best Reporting Tool

Hi JC,

Yeah, what a dufus :-)

I should also explain there will be no Access Solution 'tolerated'.
Very anti-Access here at the office, despite what we all know.
It most likely won't do what we require anyway without a lot of work.
I know Drew had a fabulous way of running Access reports from a browser and
even had ways of mimicking the param prompts.
He even demonstrated it to me many years back. Miss you brother.

Brad, thanks for the concept - It sounds excellent. Probably not for us
though.

These will need to be reports that are runnable in and from a browser.
Currently Reporting Services does this with allowing users to provide all
sorts of params.
All results can be saved to various formats including PDF and Excel
And it currently has the ability to set up 'subscriptions' that allows
reports to run and provides default params, exports to excel and then emails
the results to whomever.
All from within Visual Studio, for design and deployment.

So, something like that is what we need as a base minimum.
Sorry for leaving stuff out - That's why I mentioned we are using rep
Services at the moment.
I know a lot of you are familiar with it and would know what its base
capabilities are.

Sorry for the confusion team :-)

DD


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
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Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2012 10:58 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Best Reporting Tool

 > Sorry about that little omission :-)

Just a tiny little thing.  ;)

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 3/20/2012 7:40 PM, Darren wrote:
> Thanks for the replies so far
> I'm very sorry - I should have mentioned this (very important) fact 
> The reports must be browser visible for our clients and or their 
> clients to access via URLS as RepServices reports are.
> Sorry about that little omission :-)
> Thanks in advance
> DD
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darren
> Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2012 9:10 AM
> To: AccessD
> Subject: [AccessD] Best Reporting Tool
>
> Hi Team
>
>
>
> Brains Trust Question:
>
> We will soon be moving away from SQL Server.
>
> We will most likely be moving to PostgreSQL
>
> At the moment we are using MS Reporting Services for our reporting
platform.
>
> We will be starting to look at other reporting tools soon.
>
> So, to that end, what does the group recommend for reporting tools?
> Cost is a factor
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
> DD
>
>
>

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