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Posted: 24 Jun 2008 at 2:47pm
They need to have a report designer installed on their desktop. This either means that you give them a copy of VS.NET (definitely NOT a good idea), or get them a copy of CR 2008 to do standalone report design.
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Posted: 25 Jun 2008 at 10:20am
Yes, you either have to make the queries or show them the tables they need to use to pull data from. You could also create new reports where you just build the data source for them and then give that report to the user so they can work on designing the report. It really depends on how capable the user is with selecting tables and joining them to determine how much you need to do in advance.
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Edited by BrianBischof - 25 Jun 2008 at 10:21am
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