Reply-To: "BP Margolin" From: "BP Margolin" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools,comp.databases.ms-sqlserver,comp.databases.progress,comp.databases.ibm-db2,comp.databases.paradox References: Subject: Re: Any "Directly-Editable" Report Generators? Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:06:42 -0500 Lines: 38 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 32.101.37.64 Message-ID: <3caca769_2@news1.prserv.net> X-Trace: 4 Apr 2002 19:20:09 GMT, 32.101.37.64 Organization: Global Network Services - Remote Access Mail & News Services X-Complaints-To: abuse@prserv.net Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!usenetserver.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!uunet!lax.uu.net!sac.uu.net!ash.uu.net!newsfeed.us.prserv.net!prserv.net!news1.prserv.net!32.101.37.64 Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.tools:50408 comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:69830 comp.databases.progress:16969 comp.databases.ibm-db2:58391 comp.databases.paradox:77712 X-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 12:03:23 MST (news.easynews.com) 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" wrote in message news:f4943dbb.0204041007.6aafc7ab@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