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Thanks for all the replies. I'll check them all out.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I find Developer Express Reporting XtraReporting to meet all my needs and more.
Has a user configurable mode so users can customize and save their own versions.
Has a report server.
Powerful designer.
Worth a look. Not cheap but good tools are worth it.
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I use ActiveReports. I find it significantly easier to use than Crystal reports.
Does everything I want, including export to Excel, and email.
I am have been using it since VB6, and now C#.
Oh well...
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Hi. If you don't mind using a standalone software for reporting, i recommend you to try DBxtra, it's easy to use (drag and drop!), and let you edit queries if you know what you're doing (SQL code).
Disclaimer: I work for them.
"Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again." Ray Bradbury
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I built a data warehouse and taught my users Excel Pivot Tables. Once they get it, I am never bothered for reports again. For ad-hoc queries, this is great.
I use SSRS for pre-defined reports. It is so easy to use, to update and deploy reports.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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I have been using Microsoft Reporting Services local RDLC, migrated from the server using RDL, migrated from Crystal, and am about to just create reports in MVC views.
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Have you considered using Excel for some of the reports? You can put complex queries directly in it or build views to support the users. We do that for many one offs that will be reused frequently.
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No, but I will. This weekend's project.
Thanks
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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hi, I highly recommend you have a look at List & Label from combit (German company). It is a commercial tool and suits you needs from easy to use based on simply hooking (almost any!!!) a datasource to it until high end drill down reports as seen by commercial BI tools.
Customization options for end users are second to none. I love the tool and hate the companies restrictions in controlling their licenses. Don't get me wrong - I support regular license fees! But the way they limit and control it is a little bit to much for my understanding.
However, I am using it for nearly 15 years in a large number of commercial products. And each year they come up with a new version with valuable features.
best regards
Michael Lutz
M. A. Health Management
www.BITsoftNet.de
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"hate the companies restrictions in controlling their licenses"
I understand that. The customer I am supporting must use software from a European company. The other customer again uses s/w from a European customer. Both of the companies' licensing process are a real PITA. Had one customer have all their servers stolen with the license USB dongle still in it. Company had to buy another full license. Real hard asses.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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This is why I love CodeProject. So many ideas and people willing to share them. Professionals all.
My contract company is very selective in how it spends s/w $$. If a manager hears "free", they are all in. Corporate wise, they are gung-ho for using Microsoft out the wazoo. I won't mention the time I asked for a Linux VM. Heads exploded, others turned 360 degrees, and objects started moving on their own. lol.
For the ad-hoc query case, Excel will work for me. For the production system I need to develop, the others are possible solutions.
Thanks again
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Let me ask, what do the users want? Are they looking for the data, specific page layout, etc?
I've started delivering 2 types of reports. Grid Reports (Simply a dynamic grid result of a query you can manipulate and save to Excel), AND real Reports created with a designer (FastReports).
It depends on what they need, and how they intend to use them. The grid tools I have will do subtotals, and allow the users to dynamically group things, and apply their own additional filters.
The core concept is: Query + Bind Variables [Filters, etc] -> Results.
I like the "default" the bind variables with appropriate values, and therefore use a UNION of select "VarName","VarVal" expressions (select 'Year' as VarName, Year(now()) as VarVal) and then display that in an editable vertical grid for the user...
Then apply them to the base query. It lets me put all the report queries/params in the database, and makes it easy to add without updating the program...
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fair question  . user group 1 does not know, they want to be able to do ad-hoc reports to see what they can do.
group 2 is a production group, they are easy. I need to replicate the reports they have now, and then we will see. The reports they have now are driven by flat files and FORTRAN. I kid you not.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I've used Microsoft RDLC Reports for quite some time. It comes with visual studio by default and has tons of features. No external dependencies needed for development and in deployment machines. We can do grouping, sorting, charts and connect to different databases like Sql Server and Oracle. I moved from crystal reports to RDLC eventually.
Bharath
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will check it out. Thanks
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Chemical & Engineering News[^] has allowed free access to it's COVID articles. Everyone can learn something.
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No thanks. I am currently maxed out on COVID.
When they say I can get my vaccine, I will get that and move on with my life. I will leave the bloody science to the professionals to worry about.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Everyone can learn something.
That would imply they actually want to...
BTW thanks for the link. I am one of those who will have a look.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I recommend you to the following excerpts from the text:
Quote: The Royal Mint defended its design but did not specifically respond to the criticism, telling CNN: "The coin depicts the artist's interpretation of the various machines featured in War of the Worlds and the Invisible Man."
And Chris Costello, the coin's designer, insisted he was intentionally reinterpreting imagery from Wells' works for a modern audience.
In the former, it's the Royal Mint trying to cover it's Royal Ass by using the "artist's interpretation" as the catchall defense. It does help me better understand that "The Guardian" and 'BBC News" are, indeed, ingrained into the culture: if you don't like the facts, adjust them until you do.
As for the second paragraph in the quote - let's take the "artist's" point at face value: he knows the modern audience . . . pathetic and ignorant thralls to Google on their hand-held devices.
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'artists interpretation' is just BS for 'no he didnt do his homework and we need a story to cover it up so we dont look like the idiots we obviously are'.
everytime i hear lies and BS from people or companies that try to pathetically convince you of something other than what you know is true, it just makes me even more cynical, and there's so much of it about !!
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It makes you wonder about accounting practices at the Royal Mint if that's how they count: "one, two, four, ... seven, ... π ..."
And the Invisible man - who was after all no gentleman - wore a "wide-brimmed hat" rather than a top hat.
Clearly, there are no gentlemen of quality at the mint these days ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Governments are all the same: one for you, two for me.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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The next stage is the invisible coin...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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