Report rendering engines

Published 19 March 04 03:38 PM | MikeD

I'm investigating reporting options.

We have the following requirements:

  • our client software must be able to run offline (disconnected from the server) and produce reports.
  • the reporting engine must take a report definition and bind to a DataSet as the source data.
  • the rendered report should be viewable, printable, and emailable, and exportable to PDF, HTML, and various text formats

We're looking at Crystal Reports and SQL Reporting Services.

To me, it looks like the ability to work offline removes SQL RS from the contest. Is there a way to distribute the SQLRS rendering engine on the client so it can work offline?

 

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# Scott said on March 19, 2004 06:07 PM:

I haven't had much luck installed Reporting services. You might look at ActiveReports, I've heard a lot of good things about it.


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# Kent Tegels said on March 19, 2004 10:11 PM:

Nope. RS is a purely connected model.

# Issam Elbaytam said on March 20, 2004 01:59 AM:

ActiveReports for .NET from www.datadynamics.com meets all the requirements you mentioned.