Best Implementation

rbuser

Apologies if I appear not to have a grasp of what ReportBuilder is really
capable of but there is so much you can do with it now.

I currently collect telephone call data (extension, call duration, time,
geographic region of call etc..) into monthly interbase databases. Each of
these databases are a few 100MB each. Due to the comlexity of the
calculations for summaries etc and the fact that everything is not in the
same database, I use JIT pipelines to extract the data. I have a parser that
creates a master detail relationship with objects in memory which then
passes the data to the report. I then load any 1 of 4 templates that work
with this data into the report, wire up the report events and
printtodevices. This all works fine but there are many occasions when I need
to build a report on the fly that does not fit in with this mechanism, say a
load of graphs to display lots of different information for the same data.

I would like to implement a much more clean sceanrio that will enable me to
use hard coded reports as well as template driven ones, and one that has
maximum flexibility. I would rather implement it in a report server
environment as some clients would like web front ends etc.

Does anyone have any ideas on how best to implement what I am doing using
what ReportBuilder has to offer.

Regards

nicocizik

David,

Try downloading a trial copy of the ReportBuilder 7.02 Server Edition and
check out some of the demos that come included with that software. These
demos show exactly what ReportBuilder Server is capable of and I think it
may be a good step to take to accomplish the goals you set below.

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