Off Topic - All New Reports?

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You will find that Report Builder is probably easier to use and works well
in most cases but if you want to get fancy you will need to use Crystal
Reports. It is much more powerful than RB.

Mark Kohring
Delta Centrifugal Corp.

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Funte [mailto:tfunte@...]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:31 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Off Topic - All New Reports??


Download any and all reports from YahooGroups and also Epicor's website and
then tear them apart (meaning, look at the table joins fields, groups, etc).
I started from Scratch about a year ago and learned the same way. (I also
had someone in the company who had taken the report builder class help get
me started.)

Second, download the Excel File on egroups that has the Data Definitions in
it. This will help you scroll, search, and analyze the Tables and Fields
much easier than using Vantage's Data Definitions.

You will find the link to Yahoo Groups at the bottom of this message.

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics

----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Schmucker
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 4:14 PM
Subject: [Vantage] Off Topic - All New Reports??


Hi all,
Just a quick question....the company I am interning at is migrating from
Classic which was on AS/400 to Vantage 4.0 on Windows NT. We need to write
all new reports which will be my job. One problem though, I've barely
touched Crystal Reports and Report Builder let alone Vantage!! I'm pretty
clueless when it comes to knowing which tables and fields should be used in
what reports. Which is better to use? How do I become familiar and
proficient at using either one? Where do I start? How do I duplicate the old
reports from Classic as closely as possible? I guess all I need is a good
starting point that I can learn from. Any help would be gratiously
appreciated!! Thanks!!
-G's


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Hi all,
Just a quick question....the company I am interning at is migrating from Classic which was on AS/400 to Vantage 4.0 on Windows NT. We need to write all new reports which will be my job. One problem though, I've barely touched Crystal Reports and Report Builder let alone Vantage!! I'm pretty clueless when it comes to knowing which tables and fields should be used in what reports. Which is better to use? How do I become familiar and proficient at using either one? Where do I start? How do I duplicate the old reports from Classic as closely as possible? I guess all I need is a good starting point that I can learn from. Any help would be gratiously appreciated!! Thanks!!
-G's


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If you can take the Vantage Report Builder class, I would highly recommend
it.
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Download any and all reports from YahooGroups and also Epicor's website and then tear them apart (meaning, look at the table joins fields, groups, etc). I started from Scratch about a year ago and learned the same way. (I also had someone in the company who had taken the report builder class help get me started.)

Second, download the Excel File on egroups that has the Data Definitions in it. This will help you scroll, search, and analyze the Tables and Fields much easier than using Vantage's Data Definitions.

You will find the link to Yahoo Groups at the bottom of this message.

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics

----- Original Message -----
From: Gary Schmucker
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 4:14 PM
Subject: [Vantage] Off Topic - All New Reports??


Hi all,
Just a quick question....the company I am interning at is migrating from Classic which was on AS/400 to Vantage 4.0 on Windows NT. We need to write all new reports which will be my job. One problem though, I've barely touched Crystal Reports and Report Builder let alone Vantage!! I'm pretty clueless when it comes to knowing which tables and fields should be used in what reports. Which is better to use? How do I become familiar and proficient at using either one? Where do I start? How do I duplicate the old reports from Classic as closely as possible? I guess all I need is a good starting point that I can learn from. Any help would be gratiously appreciated!! Thanks!!
-G's


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Go to the files section of this list serve
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/ and take a look at the reports
that are there. Modifying is a lot easier then writing from scratch. Also
download the Data Dictionary in pdf format. Epicor also offers classes for
both RB and Crystal.

Oleg Tumarkin
Systems Administrator


-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Schmucker [SMTP:gslycro@...]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:15 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Off Topic - All New Reports??

Hi all,
Just a quick question....the company I am interning at is migrating from
Classic which was on AS/400 to Vantage 4.0 on Windows NT. We need to write
all new reports which will be my job. One problem though, I've barely
touched Crystal Reports and Report Builder let alone Vantage!! I'm pretty
clueless when it comes to knowing which tables and fields should be used in
what reports. Which is better to use? How do I become familiar and
proficient at using either one? Where do I start? How do I duplicate the
old reports from Classic as closely as possible? I guess all I need is a
good starting point that I can learn from. Any help would be gratiously
appreciated!! Thanks!!
-G's


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]


To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and
Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/. Note: You must have already
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Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/