Create Reports without Crystal Reports

[suicidaltendencies]

Does anyone have any ideas on how to create reports without using Crystal Reports. Most of my data is being presented in DataGrids. I want to create something more presentable for printing.

I don't have the funds to use Crystal Reports, since if you want more than 5 concurrent users to view reports you have to pay large funds.

Thanks,
Harold

 

[culshaja]

Why not presnet your reports as HTML pages that are generated using XSLT from XML. I use this method and it allows your more flexability than Crystal in some areas. You can even force page breaking in printing via CSS. You can even save the HTML reports. Another way to do it it to generate an HTML page that emits a table or tables. You can then change your response type to application/vnd.ms-excel. This will then open your data in an excel workbook in the clients browser if they have excel on their machine. They can then save and even work with the data themselves.

James

James Culshaw
james@miniaturereview.co.uk

http://www.miniaturereview.co.uk

http://www.caninerescue.co.uk

 

[henslecd]

Go here

http://www.asp.net/Default.aspx?tabindex=9&tabid=47

Some pretty sweet reports there. Good start kits.