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From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: dBase-type reports
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.074115.2409@pegasus.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 07:41:15 GMT
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In article <8y8PX1w163w@ersys.uucp> ersys!lyne@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Lyne Eaker) writes:
>Does anyone know of a REALLY easy but very powerful report maker for 
>dBase databases.  Specifically I have a database written in FoxPro.  I 
>have developed a very complex relational database over the past three 
>summers, and this will finally be the last summer.  However, the people I 
>have made it for are not technically oriented and know (nor should they 
>need to) little about computers or databases.  Once I leave they need to 
>be able to make new reports as policies change, thus I need a report 
>generator that is easy to use and supports all types of relations.
>
>Thanks.

Lyne,

I believe that there is only one commercial report generator that can do
what you want and that would be R & R Report Writer  from Concentric Data
Systems.  I personally don't use it but many, many people do and some folks
won't write reports without it.

I don't know how un-technically oriented one can be and still get the correct
reports out but I don't think it's 10th grader type stuff.  Obviously they will have to have some idea about "files" and "records" and "relationships" and
"boolean operators".  They can title the report "Average Sales for California
Customers" but if they don't compute the average and they don't restrict the
view to State = "CA" they obviously won't get the correct answer.

Hope that helps.

tom
ex-Senior Systems Analyst / Nantucket Corporation
(you really should have used Clipper instead of FoxPro)


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