I have not tried Fast Report, but:
1. True.
2. True, but my users have never complained about speed and I love the
functionality and power.
3. Too many workarounds necessary. Too many problems, support not so good.
4. I hear good things about Fast Report but have not tried it. I am
committed to Report Builder.
5. Nevrona RAVE ReportPrinter - Very unintuative interface. Just saw a demo
on this product and wasn't too impressed - spoiled after RB.

With ReportBuilder:
- Subreports are a snap. Need a summary by genreral ledger number at the
end of a batch of invoices? Piece of cake.

- Drill-Downs are a snap. Would you like to see the detail behind a General
Ledger entry on a General Ledger Report? Set up a drill down and the user
can click on any detail printline and the report opens the subreport
specified as a "DrillDown" report (just a simple property).

- End-User designers are a snap.


Ok, so I really like ReportBuilder!

Cheers,
Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ang Lik Huar [mailto:lhang@...]
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 12:35 AM
> To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [IBO] Reporting Tools
>
>
> So , i like to know which report tools is better ?
>
> 1.Crystal Report : Expensive and cannot built into delphi source
> 2.Report Builder : Expensive but powerful, little bit slow
> 3.QReport : Cheap, combine QRDesign can have some functionality like
> CR/RBuilder
> 4.Fast Report : Cheap ,got end-user designer but the support is
> not as good
> as RBuilder, i guessed !
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Tomaselli" <jrt@...>
> To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 12:11 PM
> Subject: RE: [IBO] Reporting Tools
>
>
> > I've tested report printer, and used both CR and RB. IMHO RB Rules,
> > espcially with native IBO support, end-user tools etc. It'e definately
> worth
> > the price and the time it takes to learn it. Highly recommeded.
> > John
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Magnus Johansson [mailto:trans-x@...]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 7:12 PM
> > To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [IBO] Reporting Tools
> >
> >
> > Time to time this question comes up and always FastReport and
> ReportBuilder
> > comes up.
> > I have used Crystal Reports a couple of years now (since ver 3.5 or
> > something) and I like it very much, soon it's time for me (as new to
> > IBObjects and IB) to start digging in on reports. My thoughts so far at
> the
> > moment is to go for easysofts ODBC and Crystal. I hesitate a little
> because
> > there is not many that mention Crystal Reports in this community, are
> there
> > any of you that can share any knowledge about Crystal Reports vs other
> > reporting tools?
> >
> > I don't like all dll's that comes with Crystal Reports but
> thats something
> > one have to take I guess because I like it a lot!
> >
> > Regards, Magnus.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <paul@...>
> > To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 4:58 AM
> > Subject: [IBO] Reporting Tools
> >
> >
> > > Are there any Reporting Tools available or in the works for IBO? I
> > > konw if I use the TDataset compoents I can use the QuickReport
> > > components. However I would prefer to go native IBO and so far the
> > > only thing that is missing are report components. I cease to be
> > > amazed by the breadth of what IBO can do... I just discovered the
> > > export component... that saved me a days worth of work (or more).
> > >
> > > Anyway if someone has one in the works I am interested in becoming
> > > involved.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any info,
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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