[thelist] Best Practice? (from DB --> Presentation)

[Daniel J. Cody]

Hey Ron - 

Two things I may suggest.. First is Crystal Reports.. It has hooks into
most popular web-dev languages, and is fairly common and popular..

The second, and this is a bit out there is CF5 - I've been reading up on
it and am gonna start palying with it this weekend. It apparently has
the ability to take recordsets and match them to a wide variety of
graphs.. Some people said something about MM generator, which i have no
clue about, but its something that might work for you :)

.djc.

"Luther, Ron" wrote:

> Got any suggestions for techniques or technologies?  I think they might be
> persuaded to live with a PDF file instead of a Powerpoint presentation file.
> Technology/platform is fairly irrelevant - I don't care if I have to learn
> something new.
> 
> What would you do?  [Basically - I'm hoping someone will come back and say;
> "look into {module_X or custom_tag_Y} - you feed your recordset in through
> ASP/CF/PHP/CNN/IVs/??? and it lets you create nice business charts and
> summary tables in a familiar format.]