Re: Good 3rd. Party Report Writing Tools????
Date: 1995/04/05
Message-ID: <michaelx.21.001369FD_at_leland.stanford.edu>#1/1
In article <3li83k$msk_at_gatekeeper.cognos.com> nigelc_at_Cognos.COM (Nigel Campbell) writes:
>From: nigelc_at_Cognos.COM (Nigel Campbell)
>Subject: Re: Good 3rd. Party Report Writing Tools????
>Date: 1 Apr 1995 00:52:04 GMT
>TurkBear (jvgreco_at_primenet.com) wrote:
>: In article <199503281457.IAA27973_at_dlep1.itg.ti.com> sinh_at_dlep1.itg.ti.com (Arun Sinha) writes:
[snip]
>: >Are there any good report writing tools for Oracle. The kind that users can
>: >use, without having knowledge of Oracle. So, given the list of fields of
>: >tables or views, they can generate their own reports without getting Oracle
>: >people involved.
>You might want to look at Impromptu. Provides interactive end-user
>reporting (frame based reporting) with many features that I.S. can
>manage to control access to the database. Includes support for OLE2,
>OLE automation, graphics etc etc
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Impromptu also has a very valuable feature which most other report writers do not have, the ability to use if-then-else constructs to create virual fields made up of querys of different tables. This enables you to give the user the ability to create elements which depend on the value of various other "real" elements across different tables Received on Wed Apr 05 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST