Pie charts in RB?

[dayv2005]

Is it possible to write a report in report builder and use pie charts or any other graphs in it? Or do you know of any other alternatives? Such as 3rd party software or anything?

 

[Casper]

I recently made some reports using pdf-include and a tool called csxgraph from chestysoft to make piecharts, bar graphs, stacked bar graphs and line graphs (http://www.chestysoft.com/xgraph/default.asp).
Very easy to handle and very effective to use. (Although it is an OCX so running on a decent OS is a bit difficult... )

For the reports I had to make it had sufficient functionality.

Regards,

Casper.

 

[Mike Clark]

Hi

We use vpXprint provided by www.4GL.fr - this can be downloaded as a demo.

Mike

 

[dayv2005]

thanks guys i will look into them both. appreciate it.

 

[KnutHandsome]

On the OCX front, there are lots of options, eg:
http://www.componentsource.com/features/charting-graphing/activex-ocx/index.html

You may have .Net control options soon too with the new OE features.

I've used BPS graphicserver dll/OCX in the past, expensive but very powerful.

However, your cheapest, easiest sell to management may be to embed, control, or otherwise communicate with Excel with all its graphing and reporting features - as it is probably installed on many client machines already (so no extra deployment cost) if you are operating in a standard Windows office environment, and are happy to generate display output on the client.

 

[KnutHandsome]

I recently made some reports using pdf-include and a tool called csxgraph from chestysoft to make piecharts, bar graphs, stacked bar graphs and line graphs (http://www.chestysoft.com/xgraph/default.asp).
Very easy to handle and very effective to use.

Simple and very cheap ($60!) - I like that one.