Recent content by gset

Hi all, Just to give you a quick feddback on our estimation on ReportNet. We have tried to migrate reports from Impromptu to ReportNet. It was just a nightmare: - Performance - Functionnalities that do not exist anymore - Bugs - ... Actually you have to rebuild both reports and...

Hi, Are you sure that you retreive all your rows in your SQL session and not only the first ones? Graham.

you can not. Graham.

Actually you can build numerous kind of reports but maintenance and correction of reports is very hard. You do not have a easy way to see the structure of a report, a synthesized view of sorting, grouping... Graham.

Hi all, I saw a demo of ReportNet. It seems that we can do almost every kind of reports with the tool, but I am really afraid concerning the maintenance of reports... it seems so complex with options everywhere, sub forms, popup windows... What do you guys think? Graham.

you can not. Graham.

Warehouse Builder is... is... just forget it. Indeed, Informatica is very good, but expensive. Graham.

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Hi, This happens when you use substitution fonts to generate PDF files and/or when you specified very small margins in your reports. Graham.

HI, I would be interested to know how do they use directly SQL. Can you tell me? Many thanks, Graham.

HI, You cannot do that from Impromptu but I-Assistant does. Graham.

Hi all, My tip concerns cross tables: never use them! e.g. if you have a table with columns: 1) Year 2) Country 3) Sales USD And you want Country in lines and Year in columns just do the following for column "Sales 2003": Total(if (Year = 2003) Then (Sales USD) else (0)) Repeat...

Hi, Actually you have the 'Transformer Macro Reference Guide' that is installed with the application. You will find very good samples in it and the document is very well done. Graham.

Hi, I advise you to define your security in your format (ascii file, DB...) then read it by a prgm and apply it using the transformer API. I would advise that even for Impromptu security. NEVER consider a model or a catalog as a source (or storage) of security. It is quite easy to do. Graham.

Hi all, For information, we have bought I-Assistant for Impromptu from Intregrated Solutions which is much more cheaper (2k$) and we are very happy with it because you can really do deep analysis on reports & catalogs. Graham.