Re: CrystalReports Vs. Oracle Reports ?
Date: 22 Aug 1998 13:03:23 GMT
Message-ID: <1998082213032300.JAA24151_at_ladder03.news.aol.com>
I agree wholeheartedly with Paul...
I went directly to Reports 2.5 from RPT and it took me about 3 months to learn the tool, but it was time well spent! My snazziest report was a dynamic Accounts Receivable Aging with 2 flavors: one screen version for Sales Dept folks who were on the phone with the customer and needed to know the customer's payment history while the other one was a hard copy printout for the Accounting Dept folks who used it for collections, etc.
The more I work with Reports 2.5, the more amazed I am at its power and flexibility. The frames thing is, I admit, a bit of a bother, but I solved that problem by keeping the Object Navigator open all the time to select the frame I wanted and I got a Kensington turbo mouse for the precise mouse control to grab that frame/object & move/size it. (I never did get the hang of the built in sizer!)
Performance was never ultimately a problem... I learned on some big reports to not include formating things like: Page # of # Pages, since that will slow down performance. I believe that was a minor sacrifice for the richness of the tool in satisfying some pretty tough user requirements.
Hope this helped you in your choice!
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Martin
Sr. Software Engineer
J.G. Van Dyke & Associates
My opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer... but we are both happier when they do.
Received on Sat Aug 22 1998 - 15:03:23 CEST