posted October 25, 2016 02:26 PM Hide Post
maybe someone can help me with this. So I was playing around with precision reports painter, now I want go back to using report painter when i create a new report. But for some reason the precision report painter comes up!!! How do you get the report painter to come back? This is an one annoying product....

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Tamra,

I have not been able to duplicate this problem in App Studio.

When I create a precision report and save it, then create another report, the usual report painter returns.

It sounds like a bug.

Some product. WHat I have to do have it reinstalled. POC.....

My work's antivirus thinks it should quarantine pieces of the product on my end... LOL

maybe i should have stated I am using Dev Studio 8008, Not that's going to help matters

fpompizzi,

I would upgrade to using AppStudio man. Better interface, better long term support.

Cool that's out of my control. I will tell you this much. The application my team supports has over 90 fixed reports, which were developed using Crystal Report Boxi. We are looking into moving to another reporting tool. The two that we were told to look into were Webfocus and Jasper reports. I am 100 percent certain we will not be using this product. Some of or reports are simple and some complex. Just trying to do a simple report takes days to do. Cant image trying to tackle a complex one....

I'd say more, but I probably shouldn't. Haven't heard someone talking about Jasper since college. Hopefully, whatever your team chooses, it works well for you! Best of luck!

fpompizzi,

You can probably create most of your reports within the standard report painter tool along with stylesheets and possibly some general coding knowledge.

This forum is a great resource for asking questions and for the most part members like to get involved with your development questions.

There might be a bit of a learning curve for complex reports upfront but once you have gained that knowledge and experience most reports can be developed quickly.

Take some education courses, there are many online training sessions that IBI has that can be found at - Education - Your Key to Success

For the precision report question - click on the 'Window' in the Dev Studio tool bar
- select Options
- click on the Reporting tab
- verify what the value is in the Default Report Template
- for the default report painter - table1.ftp or table2.ftp
- for precision reports - pixper.ftp

If the pixper.ftm is set as the option then all reports will start in precision mode.
Change the value to table1.ftp. The reports will start in regular report mode, then select the precision report icon if you want to continue with precision report. Once you select the icon you can not convert back.

Hope that helps.

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