Improvement suggestion
FS Team/Alex -
I have been reviewing several different report tools for use in .NET web applications. Of these I seem to like FastReports the best. However there is one frustration. A large part of my needs involves exporting to various other formats, particularly Word and Excel. You do a pretty good job at this. Howver the reason to export to these formats is to enable further off line editing or analysis by the user. The exported formats greatly impair this further activity. In the case of Excel the data gets many empty rows and columns inserted between it. I assume this is for spacing purposes, but it is a nuisance at best and renders the export useless at worst. Is there some way I can avoid this in my design, or you can redesign the product so the rows and columns come out as they were designed in the report template?
In the case of Word, the practice of putting everything in textboxes and then positioning them around the page has the same frustrating result making these two functions a royal pain and will likely cause me to avoid the product in favor of just generating html strings for delivery to my user. I'd greatly appreciate your feedback on this issue.
Thanks for listening.
I have been reviewing several different report tools for use in .NET web applications. Of these I seem to like FastReports the best. However there is one frustration. A large part of my needs involves exporting to various other formats, particularly Word and Excel. You do a pretty good job at this. Howver the reason to export to these formats is to enable further off line editing or analysis by the user. The exported formats greatly impair this further activity. In the case of Excel the data gets many empty rows and columns inserted between it. I assume this is for spacing purposes, but it is a nuisance at best and renders the export useless at worst. Is there some way I can avoid this in my design, or you can redesign the product so the rows and columns come out as they were designed in the report template?
In the case of Word, the practice of putting everything in textboxes and then positioning them around the page has the same frustrating result making these two functions a royal pain and will likely cause me to avoid the product in favor of just generating html strings for delivery to my user. I'd greatly appreciate your feedback on this issue.
Thanks for listening.
Comments
Please read this topic on how FastReport exports the report to a table-based format such as Excel:
http://www.fast-report.com/documentation/U...ormedreport.htm
When exporting to excel, you may turn off the "Wysiwyg" property. In this case FastReport will try to eliminate unnecessary rows/columns, so the result will be more editable, but less accurate comparing with the original report.