Hi All,
Been working happily with VFP7 for years and not found a reason to
upgrade. Now need to do a report with multiple detail bands so the new
reporter looks ideal. Just checking out versions of VFP9 and the
upgrade version is cheaper, but come across conflicting information
about which version you can upgrade from. Just want to check if anyone
here has upgraded from a version before 8.
While I am looking at this I might as well look into alternative
reporters like:
- Stonefield query
- Crystal reports
- XFRX
etc
Any recommendations or comments on the above?
Thanks,
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VFP 9 is much better and you should be able to upgrade.
John
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Hi All,
Been working happily with VFP7 for years and not found a reason to upgrade.
Now need to do a report with multiple detail bands so the new reporter looks
ideal. Just checking out versions of VFP9 and the upgrade version is
cheaper, but come across conflicting information about which version you can
upgrade from. Just want to check if anyone here has upgraded from a version
before 8.
While I am looking at this I might as well look into alternative reporters
like:
- Stonefield query
- Crystal reports
- XFRX
etc
Any recommendations or comments on the above?
Thanks,
--
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IT development and support
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Peter,
Upgrade from 7 to 9 is virtually painless as long as you obey a few simple guidelines which I did when I ran the upgrade. You have my phone number, just ring me if you have any problems.
XFRX is great for producing reports in various formats, Stonefield is fantastic at framework management etc but I would steer clear of Crystal. I have every version since 8.5, including the latest version and it is 1 - bloatware, 2 - difficult to use if you aren't prepared to use visual studio to drive it and 3 - slow!!
Also it doesn't really fit right with ODBC data which is what you have to use to access the VFP files. If you are using SQL server then it is much better. All the documentation written regarding VFP and Crystal (Hentzenwerke http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/crysdev.htm ) was written for versions 8 and 9 and it is a completely different beast now, anyhow I don't think you can even buy the old versions any more. I have the books if you want to browse them.
Dave
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Hi All,
Been working happily with VFP7 for years and not found a reason to upgrade. Now need to do a report with multiple detail bands so the new reporter looks ideal. Just checking out versions of VFP9 and the upgrade version is cheaper, but come across conflicting information about which version you can upgrade from. Just want to check if anyone here has upgraded from a version before 8.
While I am looking at this I might as well look into alternative reporters like:
- Stonefield query
- Crystal reports
- XFRX
etc
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Thanks,
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As far as I can remember, VFP9 upgrade is the same as full. Just an install.
Al
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Peter,
Upgrade from 7 to 9 is virtually painless as long as you obey a few simple
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Peter Cushing wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Been working happily with VFP7 for years and not found a reason to
> upgrade. Now need to do a report with multiple detail bands so the new
> reporter looks ideal. Just checking out versions of VFP9 and the
> upgrade version is cheaper, but come across conflicting information
> about which version you can upgrade from. Just want to check if anyone
> here has upgraded from a version before 8.
I upgraded from 7 to 9 without a problem. I also like stonefield query.
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Dave Crozier wrote:
> Peter,
> Upgrade from 7 to 9 is virtually painless as long as you obey a few simple guidelines which I did when I ran the upgrade. You have my phone number, just ring me if you have any problems.
>
> XFRX is great for producing reports in various formats, Stonefield is fantastic at framework management etc but I would steer clear of Crystal. I have every version since 8.5, including the latest version and it is 1 - bloatware, 2 - difficult to use if you aren't prepared to use visual studio to drive it and 3 - slow!!
>
> Also it doesn't really fit right with ODBC data which is what you have to use to access the VFP files. If you are using SQL server then it is much better. All the documentation written regarding VFP and Crystal (Hentzenwerke http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/crysdev.htm ) was written for versions 8 and 9 and it is a completely different beast now, anyhow I don't think you can even buy the old versions any more. I have the books if you want to browse them.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
Thanks Dave (and others), I'll check out the information.
Been reading a bit about the new report writer and looks very good (as
long as I can get them to pay for it!)
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On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Dave Crozier <DaveC@flexipol.co.uk> wrote:
> Peter,
> Upgrade from 7 to 9 is virtually painless as long as you obey a few simple guidelines which I did when I ran the upgrade. You have my phone number, just ring me if you have any problems.
>
> XFRX is great for producing reports in various formats, Stonefield is fantastic at framework management etc but I would steer clear of Crystal. I have every version since 8.5, including the latest version and it is 1 - bloatware, 2 - difficult to use if you aren't prepared to use visual studio to drive it and 3 - slow!!
>
> Also it doesn't really fit right with ODBC data which is what you have to use to access the VFP files. If you are using SQL server then it is much better. All the documentation written regarding VFP and Crystal (Hentzenwerke http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/crysdev.htm ) was written for versions 8 and 9 and it is a completely different beast now, anyhow I don't think you can even buy the old versions any more. I have the books if you want to browse them.
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I have been using Crystal for the past 3 years and will start #4 real
soon for a massive reporting system that IP uses. All data is on
Oracle and is referenced via ODBC in Crystal. Yes they are using the
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which IP just upgraded to this winter.
The newer version is faster then the v10 or 11. Easier to pull in
some of the changes and you can tweak a few without having to save
everywhere.
I maintain 150+ annualized reports for the Tax department. I have to
tweak last years version with this years views to keep the data
accurate over time. IP buys and sells too many plants worldwide that
it is the only safe way. IP is close to having everything on SAP.
2015 is the target and they started 2004-2005.
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