squirleegirl
Programmer
Hi!
I have a web application written in asp that users enter data in daily and print reports monthly. The existing report is build using standard html tables and such. It has been decided to include more information in this report and to change the format.
What I would love to happen is when a user clicks the report button, the report opens (whether it is in pdf, word, html, etc. I don't care as long as it is printable). Currently the user has to click on "page 1" "page2" "page3" buttons to see page1, page2, or page3 of the report and to print it (not very user friendly).
I have Crystal Reports to use, but have no idea how to use it. I'm sure I can figure the report itself out, its the sending of my asp variables to Crystal Reports and how to open the report that I can't figure out. All the help I find is for ASP.NET and I'm not using that.
I also have the format they want in a word document. I converted the word document to a web page and I know how to put my existing variables into it, however, the 2nd page of this 3 page report is landscape and asp won't convert it (the code says landscape, but its not doing it). Of course this is the way easier (and familiar) way for me to go....but
So, what is the best way to make reports like this from asp? Since most of the ASP code is already in place, I really don't want to scrap in lieu of another format. I would like for this to be as painless as possible (but I'm not feeling that right now =-)
Can anybody share their experience with me on how to proceed?
Thanks (tremendously) in advance! I sure wish I would've paid more attention in college =-)
I have a web application written in asp that users enter data in daily and print reports monthly. The existing report is build using standard html tables and such. It has been decided to include more information in this report and to change the format.
What I would love to happen is when a user clicks the report button, the report opens (whether it is in pdf, word, html, etc. I don't care as long as it is printable). Currently the user has to click on "page 1" "page2" "page3" buttons to see page1, page2, or page3 of the report and to print it (not very user friendly).
I have Crystal Reports to use, but have no idea how to use it. I'm sure I can figure the report itself out, its the sending of my asp variables to Crystal Reports and how to open the report that I can't figure out. All the help I find is for ASP.NET and I'm not using that.
I also have the format they want in a word document. I converted the word document to a web page and I know how to put my existing variables into it, however, the 2nd page of this 3 page report is landscape and asp won't convert it (the code says landscape, but its not doing it). Of course this is the way easier (and familiar) way for me to go....but
So, what is the best way to make reports like this from asp? Since most of the ASP code is already in place, I really don't want to scrap in lieu of another format. I would like for this to be as painless as possible (but I'm not feeling that right now =-)
Can anybody share their experience with me on how to proceed?
Thanks (tremendously) in advance! I sure wish I would've paid more attention in college =-)