try this ...

http://www.anychart.com/products/any...latforms/flex/

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?

I have similar reporting requirements for a system I'm prototyping at the
moment. I've looked at the liveDoc examples and one particular problem is that
using the printDataGrid object you have to re-create the original information
including formatting etc.. for each column of data (very hard work). I've
looked at the FlexReport (can be found in Flex Exchange) and that has some
interesting ideas and allows printing or PDF production using alivePDF.

What I'm trying to create is where you obtain or derive your data within your
flex app, accesses a preview screen and loads the data into inter-changable
document objects (these different doc templates could be tabular report style
or invoice layout etc...) the application keeps control of the data and loads
it into multiple pages(doc templates) on the previewer. This will show
thumbnails of each page and will enable printing or PDF's. I like this approach
because it allows the document screens to be interactive (sorting, filtering
etc.. possibly even drill-down to actual invoices or transactions.). Only
problem I foresee is volume - I think it will be fine with 10 to 20 screens,
but may need some cacheing system to allow hundreds of pages.

Steve - Thornton Software (UK)