Re: Oracle report client vs Crystal report client

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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