Re: Review on Report Generators
In a thread on report generators, Axel Sander considered doing reports in Excel with VBA. Paul Watson suggested Visionary but warned Informix often drops such tools. KONE recommended dbPower, later renamed Saffron and maintained by WebSci, but could not find the product on their site or get a reply. No working recommendation emerged.
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From: axsander@okay.net (Axel Sander) > >On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 09:04:52 GMT, "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> >wrote: > > >although I haven't used a report > >writer in anger for over a year > >What caused your holy wrath? I just meant I've only demo'd and looked at report writers for over a year. I haven't done any useful work with one for ages. And I'll beat the rest of you to it: just leave out the words "with one". :-) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:03:07 GMT, "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: >I just meant I've only demo'd and looked at report writers for over a year. >I haven't done any useful work with one for ages. And I'll beat the rest of >you to it: just leave out the words "with one". :-) Ugh... Sounds like I can save a _lot_ of work and switch back to plan A: Throw everything in Execel, group, sum and beautify with VBA code and have control on what's going on. (And if anyone wants graphics, tell him to call Picasso ;-) Axel
I'd look at Visionary if you want to keep it in the family, not bad and seems to do most stuff. My only concern is Informix do not have a good history with tools like this, they tend to drop off the product list quite rapidly Axel Sander wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:03:07 GMT, "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > >I just meant I've only demo'd and looked at report writers for over a year. > >I haven't done any useful work with one for ages. And I'll beat the rest of > >you to it: just leave out the words "with one". :-) > > Ugh... > Sounds like I can save a _lot_ of work and switch back to plan A: > Throw everything in Execel, group, sum and beautify with VBA code and have > control on what's going on. (And if anyone wants graphics, tell him to call > Picasso ;-) > > Axel -- Paul Watson # WF Software Ltd # You are only young once Tel: +44 1436 674728 # but you can be immature Fax: +44 1436 678693 # for ever www.wfsoftware.com #
We bought something called dbPower four years ago, and it produces postscript output of text, tables, and graphs. It was renamed Saffron, and is maintained by a group called WebSci. Try going to http://www.dbpower.com for more info. Paul Watson wrote: > > I'd look at Visionary if you want to keep it in the family, not bad and > seems to do most stuff. My only concern is Informix do not have a good > history with tools like this, they tend to drop off the product list > quite rapidly > > Axel Sander wrote: > > > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:03:07 GMT, "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > >I just meant I've only demo'd and looked at report writers for over a year. > > >I haven't done any useful work with one for ages. And I'll beat the rest of > > >you to it: just leave out the words "with one". :-) > > > > Ugh... > > Sounds like I can save a _lot_ of work and switch back to plan A: > > Throw everything in Execel, group, sum and beautify with VBA code and have > > control on what's going on. (And if anyone wants graphics, tell him to call > > Picasso ;-) > > > > Axel > > -- > Paul Watson # > WF Software Ltd # You are only young once > Tel: +44 1436 674728 # but you can be immature > Fax: +44 1436 678693 # for ever > www.wfsoftware.com #
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 09:46:38 -0500, KONE <kolney@cornercap.com> wrote: >We bought something called dbPower four years ago, and it produces >postscript output of text, tables, and graphs. It was renamed Saffron, >and is maintained by a group called WebSci. Try going to >http://www.dbpower.com for more info. There is nothing but the announcement of a website on this page ... Axel
Sorry about that. I went to www.websci.com and I can find no mention of the report writer component of Saffron, and I have not received any reply to an email posted on that web site. I hope that does not mean they have dropped the product, for it worked very well IMHO. I wonder what the protocol on copying abandoned software is? Axel Sander wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 09:46:38 -0500, KONE <kolney@cornercap.com> wrote: > > >We bought something called dbPower four years ago, and it produces > >postscript output of text, tables, and graphs. It was renamed Saffron, > >and is maintained by a group called WebSci. Try going to > >http://www.dbpower.com for more info. > > There is nothing but the announcement of a website on this page ... > > Axel