Hi frnds,
Nice to return to our excellent forum. Can anybody help me in one
concept.Visual basic6 is giving a in built report generation tool called data report.And
we have also a third party software called crystal report for report generation.I want
to know which one makes the application more robust end user freindly with lots of
options.
sanjit khasnobis
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| 28Dec2004,11:01 | #2 |
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The reason is it has lots more options than the Data Report and also if you look at the history as why Data Report is in VS 6 you will realize that its just because of Crystal Report Popularity in VB 5 or before. |
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| 27Oct2005,17:35 | #3 |
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The reason is it has lots more options than the Data Report
I totally agree with Shabbir , for example there is a concept of "subreport" in crystal report which can help you to create reports for different set of records , and even that the database user may be different. I f you are not clear let me explain , i.e. there are two users of a database "RAM" which deals with Cars and "SHYAM" with deals with Bikes. now a report is required which calculate the total number of cars sold in a year from "RAM" user and total number of bikes sold in a year from "SHYAM" user . In order to make this report seen in a single report , Crystal Report is much much better (with the concept of Sub Report) this is just an exaple . Data Report is specially made for VB users if you are dealing with VS. Then in that case I guess you can pass only on recordset so it is the report , therefore this constratint is also removed if you are using a crystal report . ...and so .. Hope I can give you a clear Idea of the Difference.... I agree with you shabbir, cheers Swarnava |