Problem.
Customer has an Access application which uses the internal reports for printing tickets.
They've migrated the Access app to a asp.net based system and need to print tickets without any user interaction.
They aren't prepared to pay for Crystal Reports, the ReportViewer control that ships with Visual Studio 2005 won't allow printing from a local report (it's a well documentated 'feature'!)
What I thought of doing was exporting the Access report as a HTML page and substituting the labels with databound objects but I don't know how reliable this would be.
Alternatively if there was another 'free' report system for web-based applications then that would be a help.
Any ideas of a course of action to take.
Customer has an Access application which uses the internal reports for printing tickets.
They've migrated the Access app to a asp.net based system and need to print tickets without any user interaction.
They aren't prepared to pay for Crystal Reports, the ReportViewer control that ships with Visual Studio 2005 won't allow printing from a local report (it's a well documentated 'feature'!)
What I thought of doing was exporting the Access report as a HTML page and substituting the labels with databound objects but I don't know how reliable this would be.
Alternatively if there was another 'free' report system for web-based applications then that would be a help.
Any ideas of a course of action to take.