Re: Any "Directly-Editable" Report Generators?

[Quoted] I have to agree, it sounds like a dodgy idea.

The only type of 'editing' of reports you would give to users would be something like Oracle Discoverer or Cognos Impromptu and the rest of the suite, PowerPlay etc...

"BP Margolin" <bpmargo_at_attglobal.net> wrote in message news:3caca769_2_at_news1.prserv.net...
> David,
>
> It's not clear from your post whether you want the "edited" report to
update
> the data in the database. In many cases, this is not possible, because
many
> reports represent aggregated data, and there would be no way to properly
> alter the rows affected. For example, if you have a query with a SUM in
it,
> and the query aggregates, say, 200 rows of data to a single output line,
and
> a user changes the SUM value on the report from 2500 to 2600, how is the
> extra 100 supposed to be distributed over the original 200 rows of data?
>
> -------------------------------------------
> BP Margolin
> Please reply only to the newsgroups.
> When posting, inclusion of SQL (CREATE TABLE ..., INSERT ..., etc.) which
> can be cut and pasted into Query Analyzer is appreciated.
>
> "altemir" <altemir_at_alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
> news:f4943dbb.0204041007.6aafc7ab_at_posting.google.com...
> > Can anyone recommend a reporting package that allows users to edit the
> > generated report?
> >
> > Although I know that virtually all report writers allow users to
> > customize their reports by giving them a design environment to set up
> > their own report templates, I'm looking for something that allows
> > users to directly edit the generated report as if it was a Word
> > document.
> >
> > I guess I'm describing a package that is a basic report writer PLUS a
> > document editor.
> >
> > Does such a thing exist that can be easily integrated with a VC++
> > application.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any leads.
> >
> > -- David
>
>
Received on Fri Apr 05 2002 - 16:05:32 CEST