try...catch...finally...bloggg....: September 2005

try...catch...finally...bloggg....

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Reporting tool from logixml

Recently one of my requirement was to create web based hierrarchical drill down reports. We wanted to create the no of registrations we were getting over the year, drill down to month and then days and finally to the participants who registered on the particular day. I found this impressive tool from www.logixml.com which helped me solve this problem in less than 3 hours. The installation was smooth the samples provided a clear idea about what can be expected in the reports and the no programming drag and drop approach gets you started without the steep learning curve. The liberator version is the free version which is available and works as a charm. I still havent played with the graphical charts it creates but the samples are impressive. I cant imagine someone trying to crank out a similar report with all the sorting and paging functionality with the drill down in atleast less than 2-3 weeks. Saves a lot of time and money.


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