Reports

[mrapson]

Anyone have any suggestions of a good reporting tool to purchase with Visual Basic 6.0

Thanks!

[aknudsen]

Seagate Crystal Reports works well.
You might make sure that the VB reporting tool isn't going to suffice before you go buy something though because you'll escape some of the packaging nightmares.

[pherweg]

List&Label is great.
www.combit.de

Bye
Peter

[mrapson]

We have extremely detailed reporting needs. So I think we are going to have to go with a package. Are you currently using Crystal??

And thanks for the feedback:-)

[aknudsen]

We are. Right now we're using Crystal 7. We're planning to upgrade to Crystal 8, but they had some problems with their install that was screwing up the Registry (this was a while ago). I hope that it has been fixed.
I don't personally design the reports, but we haven't had a report request that we haven't been able to fulfill, yet.
The reason I mentioned the deployment is that you've got to include a lot of dlls in your install if the app is on the client.

[mrapson]

Thanks! That is definitely helpful. I haven't done this before so searching for an appropriate tool is becoming more involved than I have thought!

[TH1]

How's it going
I noticed that you said you used Crystal 7.
I'm using it as well and I have found that the runtime file requirements are a nightmare wit hsome reports working and some not.
I don't suppose you could send me a list of the dll's you distribute with your app so that I can see if I'm missing anything.
Cheers
Tony

[aknudsen]

I'm not sure if this is everything, but here is a list of some we do use:
craxdrt.dll
craxddt.dll
craxdui.dll
p2smon.dll
crpaig32.dll
u2fodbc.dll
u2l2000.dll
u2ddisk.dll
u2dmapi.dll
u2fcr.dll
u2fdif.dll
u2fhtml.dll
u2frec.dll
u2frtf.dll
u2fsepv.dll
u2ftext.dll
u2fwks.dll
u2fwordw.dll
u2fxls.dll
crxlat32.dll
u2lcom.dll
u2lbar.dll
u2ldts.dll
u2lexch.dll
u2lfinra.dll
u2lsamp1.dll
u2frdef.dll
u2dvim.dll
u2dpost.dll
u2dnotes.dll
u2dapp.dll
crviewer.dll

There are also several MS dlls that are dependencies also, but I've found that the seagate site has a decent amount of info about those depency files.

Good luck,
Adam

[Cimperiali]

Great!

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