J Livingston SQL (8/8/2012)
Luis Cazares (8/7/2012)
I'm not sure if there's a conflict of interests by posting the following but...If you're looking for a nice tool that can be easy for the execs to work with, you might try qlikview.
It's not a replacement for SSRS, but it might be a nice tool.
Hi Luis
have you been actively involved in using qlikview?....its something I only yesterday started to research....my company reqs are exactly as you say..."easy for the execs".
...but is it hard to admin / set up so that it appears as being "easy to the execs" 🙂
There are things that really suck in SSRS: Parameter layout is one that drives me mad. I have reports where the user can select an operator and operand(s)
For example, the first param for a date report might be a choice of <, >, =, between
When they select between they need to select a start date and end date, so I end up with operator, operand1 on 1 line and operand 2 on a second line.
Similarly, if I have above and then want another parameter, I can't get the operator to start on new line without adding an empty parameter, which just confuses users,
so instead of
Operator1 Operand1.1 Operand1.2
Operator2 Operand2.1
I get:
Operator1 Operand1.1
Operand1.2 Operator2
Operand2.1
The whole thing about not be able to select which parameters don't cascade is a real pain. Having 7-8 parameters and having to wait for a postback after every single one sucks
Regards
Mark