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Old 07-07-2008, 07:59 PM
Ansury
 
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Default Re: No Reporting Components?

That looks nice, but I think Flex's charting features will do fine for our
graphical charting purposes.

Let me clarify what kind of reporting tool I need (and I assume the type the
OP needed).

Users need to be able to generate (and definitely print!) reports of
data similar to what a DataGrid gives you. This could be a very very long list
- a few hundred pages potentially. (Sounds stupid, but it's not worth
explaining..trust me. lol)

Users (like in a DataGrid) should be able to move columns around, add/remove
columns, customize the title/header/footer of the printed pages, and use
"advanced search" type functionality to narrow their report results with.

Technically, this could be done using a DataGrid inside Flex and some other
various Flex work, but the whole idea of using a reporting solution is that it
does these things for you out of the box. And even then, the headers/footers
of the report when printing are still a major problem. I've yet to see an
example of a DataGrid being printed with a header/footer, page numbers, etc.
from within a Flex app.

So... and I'm hoping someone from Adobe will respond here... are there ANY
good solutions that fill this need, allowing you to stay within your
application's SWF and not need to go outside to some crummy old school web page
to do your reporting?

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