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Wed, Jun 29 2011 5:51 AM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | I've been asked to add export to Excel into an app. I'm looking at Scalabium's component but also thinking about FastReport. Anyone out there using the Excel filter? If so is it any good?
Roy Lambert |
Wed, Jun 29 2011 6:20 AM | Permanent Link |
Fernando Dias Team Elevate | Roy,
I'm using FastReport , including xls export, as well as Scalabium's components. What are you going to export, is it data only or formatted reports? For simple data exporting I prefer Scalabium, but I also have exporting to excel enabled with fastreport for all my reports. Exporting reports to excel works very well, as long as we have some care aligning the reports objects, having in mind that they will have to fit an excel grid. -- Fernando Dias [Team Elevate] |
Wed, Jun 29 2011 7:41 AM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | Fernando
Its for someone who believes his customers want the report in Excel rather than as a pdf and "knows" they won't accept a pdf My current system (based on TMWPrintObject) will adjust columns and wrap text so that the report fits onto A4 (if to big for portrait it uses landscape) and it would be nice to continue that. I know I can do it with FastReport but not sure with Mike's stuff. Are you using the virtual database engine or what? Roy Lambert |
Wed, Jun 29 2011 8:52 AM | Permanent Link |
John Hay | Roy
> I've been asked to add export to Excel into an app. I'm looking at Scalabium's component but also thinking about FastReport. Anyone out there using the Excel filter? If so is it any good? It's maybe not the tool for this problem but I really like using Flexcel (the TMS excel thingy). It really comes into its own when you need "fit to page" type reports and as the formatting is all done in excel the output is always superb. John |
Wed, Jun 29 2011 9:31 AM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | John
I might agree with you apart from the fact that I'm busy taking the TMS components out of my app. In general terms I find them to heavy, difficult to manage, and awkward to debug. So far I've only removed two - glowbuttons and AdvDBGrid - my app has lost c1Mb from the exe, runs a bit faster and gives me less grief. I'm about to start work on the pagecontrol which will only leave the stringgrids, progressbars, menus, officegroupboxes, officecheckboxes, dbplanner and htmllabels (I think). The stringgrids may stay even though there are a lot more features than I want. I'm sort of lucky as a hobbyist if it takes 3 calendar weeks to write a replacement for the glowbutton (which no longer glows but is very pretty) who cares - its not stopping me earning money. Roy Lambert ps I'll be interested in your views on my ol line manual - demo in the binaries. |
Wed, Jun 29 2011 10:41 AM | Permanent Link |
John Hay | Roy
> I might agree with you apart from the fact that I'm busy taking the TMS components out of my app. In general terms I find them to heavy, difficult to manage, and awkward to debug. > > So far I've only removed two - glowbuttons and AdvDBGrid - my app has lost c1Mb from the exe, runs a bit faster and gives me less grief. > > I'm about to start work on the pagecontrol which will only leave the stringgrids, progressbars, menus, officegroupboxes, officecheckboxes, dbplanner and htmllabels (I think). > "Only" I'm not a huge fan of component suites myself, and I think TMS in particular can be a bit of a mish mash. After having altered a page based tabular report in reportbuilder for the nth time (moving lines to insert/delete extra rows and columns) Flexcel allows me to write code to produce the numbers and someone else can make it pretty! > Roy Lambert > > ps I'll be interested in your views on my ol line manual - demo in the binaries. I've had a look. I am struggling a bit as the db stuff (eg right click/display all help items) is creating a edb error #600 cannot create file c:\users\roylam~1\appdata\... The system cannot find the path specified. Looks likethis leads to access violations and index out of bounds errors. John |
Wed, Jun 29 2011 11:02 AM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | John
>I'm not a huge fan of component suites myself, and I think TMS in particular can be a bit of a mish mash. After having >altered a page based tabular report in reportbuilder for the nth time (moving lines to insert/delete extra rows and >columns) Flexcel allows me to write code to produce the numbers and someone else can make it pretty! I was thinking of just using the export capabilities of their AdvStringGrid which will do basic savetoexcel I think. >> ps I'll be interested in your views on my ol line manual - demo in the binaries. > >I've had a look. I am struggling a bit as the db stuff (eg right click/display all help items) is creating a edb error >#600 cannot create file c:\users\roylam~1\appdata\... The system cannot find the path specified. Looks likethis leads >to access violations and index out of bounds errors. Thank you - I'll get that sorted tonight. All to often I fall for that one! |
Wed, Jun 29 2011 11:32 AM | Permanent Link |
Fernando Dias Team Elevate | Roy,
> Its for someone who believes his customers want the report in Excel rather than as a pdf and "knows" they won't accept a pdf You are lucky, in my case they want both excel and pdf, as well as good looking reports for printing . > ... I know I can do it with FastReport but not sure with Mike's stuff. I only use Mike's components for importing and basic data-only exporting. For all the rest I use FastReport. >Are you using the virtual database engine or what? No, I considered that at first, but I gave up, it wasn't worth the extra effort of keeping it updated for EDB and DBISAM releases (I use FR with both). I only use TfrxDBDatasets getting data from TEDBQuery or TEDBTable, and I'm very happy with this design. Its simple and yet very powerful, and along with TfrxDesigner i can even give my customers the ability to customize some of the reports - customized invoice forms, for example. -- Fernando Dias [Team Elevate] |
Wed, Jun 29 2011 1:33 PM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | John
I've hopefully fixed things Roy Lambert |
Thu, Jun 30 2011 7:53 AM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | Fernando / John
I've just bought FastReports. Even though it was cheaper from the distributor than fastReports themselves it was good to see that there wasn't a $1=£1 conversion. Now waiting for the licence key Roy Lambert |
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