Help needed for evaluation

rbuser

Hello,

our company is currently evaluating ReportBuilder for an upcoming
project with one of german's biggest telco companies.

So, I'm asking you to answer this small feature list.

If you can, reply y = yes or n = no, if funtionality is available.

E.g.:

- Report development is comparable to MS Access?
y

=> which means Reportbuilder does have this feature.

Thank you very much in advance!

Regards,
Mounir Benzid
m.benzid@oraylis.de
www.oraylis.de

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- User/Customer may edit his/her own reports?

- Report creation is comparable to MS Access?

- May integrate Reports in my own applications?

- May deploy reports to other users?

- May develop cross like reports?

- May develop diagram reports (charts/bars/etc..)?

- May develop calendar reports. E.g. the printout may give the user a
yearly,weekly,... overview of his/her tasks. The calendar should be
able to cope with local/regional holidays.

- Groupping (+what grouping features are available)

- Aggregation (+what aggregation features are available?)

- May create Drilldown reports?

- May create Subreports?

- Which Buildin export capabilities exist?
Excel:
Word:
Access:
PDF:
HTML:

- May export reports to text file?

- May export reports to file in append mode?

- May export reports to file in overwrite mode (replace) ?

- May deploy reports via Mail?

- May deploy reports via Mail as attached pdf,doc,xls, etc document?

- May encrypt reports (pgp, etc.) before deployment?

- May add digital signiture to reports and forms?

- May schedule report delivery? (Send report every monday, etc.)

digitalmetaphors

Most, if not all, of the below are either directly or indirectly supported.
RB is 100% Object Pascal which means you have access to most of the source.
That means that if something isn't directly supported, the likelyhood is
that it can still be accomplished. Trial versions of RB are available from
the website. Please also download Learning ReportBuilder as it will give you
a more thourough introduction to RB.


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Cheers,

Alexander Kramnik
Digital Metaphors


Yes, in RB Pro and up.


Yes, banded style report creation.


Yes, RB is 100% object pascal, thus can be compiled into the Delphi
application.


Yes. In fact there are multiple ways of doing that, including reports on a
form,
templates, archives. The upcoming server edition will allow report
distribution over the web or
to a thin client app.


Yes, using the crosstab component.


RB supports the TeeChart component.


Yes. Check out RBAddOn component which contains a calendar component for RB.


Yes. Grouping on data and custom components.



Yes .


Yes.


Third party devices, namely ones from Waler and Pragnaan, support, at least,
Excel, Word, PDF, HTML.
See http://www.pragnaan.com and http://www.waler.com


Yes. Either comma delimited or report emulation text.


Can be accomplished.


Yes.


As earlier, third party devices available to support this.


Can be accomplished using third party devices as mentioned above.


Not natively, but should be possible.


Same as above.


Save as above.

digitalmetaphors

> > - Aggregation (+what aggregation features are available?)

Sorry, missed this one. I assume you are referring to aggregate functions on
the data? This could be accomplished with the end user dataview designer,
DADE, which allows you to define queries which could include aggregate
functions. Please let me know if I'm misunderstanding this question.

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Cheers,

Alexander Kramnik
Digital Metaphors

"Alexander Kramnik (Digital Metaphors)" wrote