Re: Oracle report client vs Crystal report client

[Quoted] [Quoted] Hmmm, Crystal reports may offter the first two features and they could be [Quoted] [Quoted] simulated by front end forms if you want, but I disagree on the third Daniel. Oracle Reports can run stored procedures.

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_exxesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3F3908FE.4D456F47_at_exxesolutions.com...
> dingxi_at_yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > We have many crystal reports here, and recently we plan to move over
> > to oracle reports due to some license issue. However, i found some
> > funtions in crystal report client are not available in oracle reports
> > client, such as the following:
> >
> > 1. in crystal report client, end users can view the list of available
> > reports and the time when reports are launched, also whether the
> > reports are sucessful or not. I failed to find the similar features in
> > oracle reports.
>
> Correct.
>
> >
> > 2. in crystal report client, end users can view their own privileges,
> > whether they can run some reports or not, while oracle reports put
> > everything under the admin interface, which end users don't have
> > access to.
>
> Correct.
>
> >
> > I am sure oracle reports have some valuable features which need to be
> > digged out, so please input your comments, thanks.
> >
> > mike
>
> In addition Crystal also allows you to execute back-end stored procedures.
> Something shockingly missing in Oracle Reports.
>
> That Oracle didn't make reports similar to Forms is a huge missed
> opportunity. Reports isn't object oriented, has almost no programming
> interface, and is a nightmare when it comes to manipulating frames. If it
> were my money ... I'd pay the dollars to Seagate.
>
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Received on Tue Aug 12 2003 - 23:58:56 CEST