Re: VFP9 SP2 I need a report writer recommendation for a non-programmer

Author: MB Software Solutions, LLC

Posted: 2011-10-13 at 13:46:49

On 10/13/2011 1:40 PM, Dan Covill wrote:

> On 10/13/11 08:42, kamcginnis@gmail.com wrote:

>> This user would not want to spend a lot of money. They only need some simple reports and probably would not access more

>> than 3 tables in the report.

>>

>> Any suggestions?

>

> We've had some success with Access. At least it's readily available,

> supported, and has the MS imprimatur. It works, too.

>

> Caveat: Like all schemes for writing programs without programming,

> success depends on the attitude of the person using it.

I'll throw Doug Hennig's Stonefield Query tool out here too. The mgmt

decided not to use it at Sylvan (for no good reason) but it would have

allowed end-users to create/run reports somewhat easily, taking

advantage of the SDT info I had already on file about the database in

the meta-data tables.

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Mike Babcock, MCP

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