Dave, When I saw you use Crystal, my first question is, are you giving it the data, or letting it pull. Since you put " which seems to take an age to extract the data as it has to go through ADODB" you are getting it. I found pushing the data removes many issues older versions of Crystal had. However, multiple record sets were still a slow down. Until I found the Microsoft Shape. Though I never got it into production, the speed increase of pushing the data was very noticeable.
YMMV, Tracy -----Original Message----- From: Dave Crozier Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:37 AM Malcolm, I tried to get into it about 4-5 months ago and found it very limited in what it could do compared with something like Crystal and consequently bought the latest version of Crystal. In essence it gives you a fairly standard reporting system with all the things you would expect, just that the presentation of the finished data is somewhat limited. Our users here are used to drilldown etc on reports with embedded graphs etc and although you can do this it would seem to be messy - at least the way I was trying to use it, but this may well have been through lack of knowledge. On the plus side it is extremely fast compared with Crystal, which seems to take an age to extract the data as it has to go through ADODB. You pays your money and take your choice I guess. I may well give it another look in the next few months as it does seem to interface well with web portals (our next development) which Crystal, even the latest version certainly doesn't. Dave Crozier _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/000601ca20cf$bc2179b0$34646d...@com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
