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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: CRW vs RDS
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 23:32:10 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <200303022144.h22Li9e12794@twelve.apptechnc.net>


Terry Reigel wrote:
>On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:22:29 -0600, Jeff Clenard wrote:
> >
> >Correct, most of the major features from the CRW are now
> >embedded in the RDS.
> >
> >Two features are not: 1) TMG v5.x does not have anything
> >similar to the Report Wizard.
> >2) In TMG v4.x, when reports are run from the CRW Log, the
> >user will always be brought back to the CRW Log when the
> >report completes.
> >Since TMG v5.x does not have a CRW Log, the user is
> >brought back to the current layout.
>
>The latter is an annoying loss, in my view. There are a couple of
>work arounds. If it's a report you use often, attach it to a toolbar
>button and it's pretty close. There is also the list of recently used
>reports on the Reports menu, which takes a couple of clicks, and the
>keyboard shortcut to it -- Alt, R, 1.


The only real advantage to the CRW Log is if the user wants to generate
multiple reports (either using the same report configuration or different
ones or some combination). The CRW Log allowed the CRW program to remain
in memory which nowadays is somewhat insignificant due to faster computers
as well as a faster program. In v4x, I did not use the CRW Log very much
although I did use it a few times -- more out of convenience than anything
else. By convenience, I mean that I wanted to run multiple reports using
the same report configuration entering different "search" values for
each. Whether selecting the report from the Toolbar or from the report
menu, running the same report multiple times was inconvenient. But
opening the CRW Log, running the report multiple times and exiting the CRW
Log was much more convenient.


Lee Hoffman/KY
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