Re: Problem on reports

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"Il Khan" <kublaikhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi, I have an asp application running on a dozen of winXP machines
> configured as kiosks. This application stores its data on a MS access db.
> I
> have the need to make some reports extracting data from the db, displaying
> them on screen and exporting to rtf.
> I've tried several commercial products, like Crystal Reports, Active
> Reports
> and others, but one is difficult to integrate in asp, another requires an
> expensive license for each machine (not acceptable for me), considering
> each
> machine as a website/domain.
> Some requires additional tools, like Visual Basic, but this could be
> acceptable.
> I have also found some tools that allow to easily display datagrids from
> the
> db, but they are too simple, for example I could easily build a page that
> showed the result of a simple select, but I couldn't find a way to
> aggregate
> data in a more complex way (I need to make reports where some data for the
> header come from 1 or more tables, and data for the core of the report
> come
> from multiple tables with the ability to have subreports).
> Anybody knows a tool to solve this problem in an efficient way?
> Thank you a lot
>
> Il Khan
>


Yes. Devise your queries in asp and write the results out using hand-crafted
html. You can even do horizontal bar graphs using simple <img> tags

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