Re: When your end users insist on having a report writer, what do you use?

Shawn Belt wrote:
> I have Googled this group on this subject but any info seemed to be
> older posts. I'm hoping for some newer information.
>
> We use RM Cobol, Relativity, and SCO.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.

We wrote our own. Not perfect, but users can:
Decide what goes on a "line," including calculations (i.e., on-hand x
retail)
Filter the input (i.e., on-hand < 0 and current sales > 0 and vendor =
"xyz"). Filter can include calculations.
Select the order of output (sort on any field), with three levels of
sorting, ascending or descending
Select field for sub-total breaks
Select destination: Screen, printer, or file
If file, text, tab, CSV, or other. Select name and destination.

Then, just to make it fair, let them assign a name to the report and use
it again in the future.

We haven't gussied-up the printed report - it's pretty vanilla. No sense
going overboard.

Some ideas anyway.




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