I am using the report generation toolkit in an application and currently I am creating MSWord reports. However I have clients that may not have MSWord and I have been looking at the HTML choice.
I created this application around 15 years ago and have clients using around the world, but I have issues with the reporting and using Office (the original build is using calls to macros in EXCEL to generate a final report of the data that is sent to EXCEL). The problem with this is everytime there is a new version of Office or based on a Company's policy regarding VBA macros, the application will break. So I am looking for other options that would have a longer life.
My application is reporting charts and pictures from each step of an experiment and the data is stored in a database. The number of steps are not a fixed number, so what I have done is created a cluster that contains the chart and it's associated picture. So what I do is query each data set in the data base and I then use the Append Control Image vi to add the series of steps to the report.
I like the idea of creating a HTML report ( I have tried it a it works), but I don't like the fact that this will create a number of images files that are linked to the report. Has anybody used some other options for reports with success? I don't want a list of options that you think might work and I should give it a try.
Regards
