Crystal Reports Alternative?

[Nikhil]

Ms Office comes with web components. That has a charting
component. I dont know how scalable the components are.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello,
>
>I'm making a classic ASP site with an MS SQL database.

Users needs to

>be able to pass parameters via ASP to create a dynamic

SQL statement

>and generate a report (with charts and graphs). Crystal

Reports is too

>expensive due to concurrent licensing requirements. Does

anyone know

>of an alternative that could do something similar

<i>without</i> the

>$20 Can. price tag? Perhaps an ASP component I don't know

about? Or

>maybe another solution? I'd like to create more than bar

graphs (e.g.

>line graphs), but at the same time it doesn't have to be

overly

>complex. All I want is dynamic reports.
>
>Any help is appreciated, thanks.
>.
>

[Frank Drebin]

I've had great experience with [url]www.advsofteng.com[/url] "ChartDirector". They have
a COM and .NET version and it's like $99 per server. It's a great charting
tool - you can do ANYTHING with it... and it's zillions of dollars cheaper
than ChartFX..

"Nikhil" <nikhilkb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Ms Office comes with web components. That has a charting
> component. I dont know how scalable the components are.
>

> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm making a classic ASP site with an MS SQL database.

> Users needs to

> >be able to pass parameters via ASP to create a dynamic

> SQL statement

> >and generate a report (with charts and graphs). Crystal

> Reports is too

> >expensive due to concurrent licensing requirements. Does

> anyone know

> >of an alternative that could do something similar

> <i>without</i> the

> >$20 Can. price tag? Perhaps an ASP component I don't know

> about? Or

> >maybe another solution? I'd like to create more than bar

> graphs (e.g.

> >line graphs), but at the same time it doesn't have to be

> overly

> >complex. All I want is dynamic reports.
> >
> >Any help is appreciated, thanks.
> >.
> >

[Mark Andrews]

We make a nice Crystal Replacement it uses Microsoft Access report designer
and delivers web based reports as PDF files. You need a copy of Microsoft
Access, our product
and a pdf driver on the server. Against SQL it's best to use pass-thru
queries to run
sql againsts views/tables or to run stored procedures at runtime you can
pass everything
to the report in a variety of ways.

If you just need a graph component I recommend Graphics Server or ChartFX.

HTH,
Mark Andrews
RPT Software
[url]http://www.rptsoftware.com[/url]


"Rosebud" <superchan777@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I'm making a classic ASP site with an MS SQL database. Users needs to
> be able to pass parameters via ASP to create a dynamic SQL statement
> and generate a report (with charts and graphs). Crystal Reports is too
> expensive due to concurrent licensing requirements. Does anyone know
> of an alternative that could do something similar <i>without</i> the
> $20 Can. price tag? Perhaps an ASP component I don't know about? Or
> maybe another solution? I'd like to create more than bar graphs (e.g.
> line graphs), but at the same time it doesn't have to be overly
> complex. All I want is dynamic reports.
>
> Any help is appreciated, thanks.