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elwoos
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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 Posted - 2004-09-09 : 05:41:04
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| Is anyone actually using this system? What do you use to create the reports? The people here who will want to create reports aren't developers and it seems like overkill to buy Visual Studio just so that they can do that. Do I have other options? Will just Visual Basic (for example) support Report generation? I understand that other non Microsoft tools can be used but what?thankssteveSteve no function beer well without |
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ditch
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
1466 Posts |
Posted - 2004-09-09 : 06:16:03
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| Yip we use it, been to seminars too. Reports are created in Visual Studio.net I'm not sure if Non-Developers should be creating reports with it (But thats mybe cos my users are all damn stupid), anyways to access the data some developer will have to create the stored procs for the non-developer anyway (you can't trust them with the sql generating tool that they have there). There are many other non-Microsoft tools - Like Business Objects (which our existing systems use) RS beats BO by far though (That's my own personal opinion).The nice thing about RS is a RS report can be called from other web pages etc (we have already implemented these in some of our systems).That's my 2c worth on my 2nd but 1st real post in this forum.Duane. |
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SamC
White Water Yakist
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Posted - 2004-09-09 : 08:23:14
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| Hey! I missed the second post ! ;-)Hopefully, I'll have something to add later. I should have my first reports up by next week, and we use Visual Studio to create the reports.BTW. Someone told me they purchased a stripped-down Visual Basic version of Visual Studio for about $100.I haven't been able to confirm this myself. Sam |
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kselvia
Aged Yak Warrior
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Posted - 2004-09-09 : 13:33:44
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| I think you can download "Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Beta" from MS or "Business Intelligence Development Studio" comes with SQL 2005 Beta. I have them installed. (sorry no links) Those tools will generate SRS reports. They contain scaled down version of the Visual Studio IDE. I also have Visual Studio installed but I don't think it is required.Hmm this 3rd post in the forum should really have a few more facts and a little less supposition. I'll look it up later :)--KenI want to die in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers. |
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elwoos
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2052 Posts |
Posted - 2004-09-10 : 10:33:49
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| Thanks guys, that's what I wanted. I've been trying to find out if Web Developer Express would create RS reports and it looks from what you say Ken like they do. This will solve my problems. Yes I have stupid users too but I have no developers, we're a fairly small department (about 100 users and growing) so most of the 'IT' people have other jobs too which is another reason that it seems expensive to give them Visual Studio.cheerssteveSteve no function beer well without |
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First genuine post ;-)