Crystal Reports alternatives.. and does SQL Reporting Services have field definitions only option?

You can try i-net Clear Reports (used to be i-net Crystal-Clear). It can read your Crystal Reports files and it costs far less. It can also render PDF files directly from your Crystal Reports files.

We also now offer a fully functional, free report designer which can run reports.

. Haven't heard of this one, so will check out. Many thanks.

– David Sheardown Sep 18 '10 at 23:58.

You could check out combit List & Label, it apparently supports web based reporting.

Thank you! Lots of great ideas as usual... stackoverflow has an amazing community – David Sheardown Aug 11 '10 at 20:28.

ActiveReports allows you to use a query at design time to retrieve the field definitions for designing the report. Once the fields list is generated no data is needed while designing the report. You can also add fields to the fields list manually.

This is useful if you can't use a query at the time you design a report. You can also add what ActiveReports calls "unbound" fields (useful for data not in a database or for calculated fields). These are fields you can use to design the report and the data can be supplied at runtime when ActiveReports raises an event allowing your code to provide data for the unbound fields.

ActiveReports also has completely royalty free licensing. You only need to purchase a license for each developer and deploy it to as many users or web servers as needed. Finally, the provided Crystal Reports import utility will help you upgrade your existing Crystal Reports quickly.

Scott Willeke GrapeCity inc.

Thanks Scott! I heard of ActiveReports a while back... forgot about it, so thanks for the reminder! – David Sheardown Aug 11 '10 at 20:27.

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