What is the best reporting tool?

[seema_s]

What is the best reporting tool to create reports?

[szlamany]

What is the best reporting tool to create reports?

Depends on your requirements.

Our requirements are huge - so we developed our own report writer engine.

Crystal is heavy and cumbersome and not feature-rich enough for our needs.

I've heard people on the forum use RICH-TEXT box filters to do reporting (dglienna I believe)...

How many reports? What type?

[MartinLiss]

Moved.

[RhinoBull]

Crystal Reports is the best but I would agree that it's "heavy". There is also very nice report writer called "Active Reports". MS Access has decent report writer but you'll need to use automation if you ever want to interface it from outside of its parent application.

[seema_s]

Crystal Reports is the best but I would agree that it's "heavy". There is also very nice report writer called "Active Reports". MS Access has decent report writer but you'll need to use automation if you ever want to interface it from outside of its parent application.

What does it mean "heavy"? is it hard to learn?

Where can I get the "Active Reports" Tool? Because I need to prepare reports for sales and collections by weekly, monthly, quarterly, hafl yearly & yearly.

[szlamany]

By "heavy" I meant the requirements to install and distribute and create reports.

Simple accounting reports can come right from your VB program - using the PRINTER object. If your VB app is already installed on the client machines then the "overhead" associated with this technique is minimal.

[si_the_geek]

As another options, if MS Office is installed on the client machines then you can use Excel or Word as reporting tools fairly easily.

[Hack]

Where can I get the "Active Reports" Tool?

Here

[dee-u]

ComponentOne is nice also...

[neodatatype]

Give a look at my little FREE project: MyNeoReport

[mabbas110]

Dear All,

I have used both Crystal Reports and Active Data Reports. And made lot of reports but i prefer Crystal Report as its very easy to learn it and good for RAD. Active Data Reprots are not doubt very ligh but a lot of work , u have to do to make a report and in the same time i can make more than three reports in Crystal Reports.

As far as which tool should be used , so its own report deisnger should be used.
For VB 6.0 Cyrstal Report 8/8.5 is best and for .NET 9.0 and above are good enough.