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Report rendering engines

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?

 

Published Mar 19 2004, 03:38 PM by MikeD
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Scott said:

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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March 19, 2004 6:07 PM
 

Kent Tegels said:

Nope. RS is a purely connected model.
March 19, 2004 10:11 PM
 

Issam Elbaytam said:

ActiveReports for .NET from www.datadynamics.com meets all the requirements you mentioned.
March 20, 2004 1:59 AM

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