This sounds great. I have uploaded some already, but I was wondering whether it would be sensible to have a 'modertor' type person who could sift out duplicate reports. So if someone has produced an xml report and then someone else makes it better, the old one gets replaced by the new one if it is the same. Otherwise we could end up with the same or similar reports being added, but which do exactly the same thing but are called slightly different names. I could see it getting very confusing when trying to choose an appropriate report.

Any thoughts?

Brian

Thanks for such a quick and positive response!

Darwyn - any really. Refined, or refined and 'works in progress', though let me know which is which!

My XML skills at the moment are virtually non-existent so I wouldn't be able to contribute towards those that need a little 'tweaking' but someone else here might, or if not we could have a section on 'works in progress' maybe.

I'll email Mike and Sally to see if they have any reports they would be willing to contribute, and also ask Mike about the Report Wizard downloads.

You can provide reports via the uploads page or email me.

As for moderating, I was initially going to gather them all together and go through them (that should identify any duplicates initially), but I would also be willing to go through them every couple of months to remove any that had now been replaced etc.

I think having good descriptions of each report (stating clearly what each report does) should also help avoid confusion.

Thank you everyone,

Sarah

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I don't think many people are going to install Mike's report wizard scripts unless they're quite technically literate. Unlike the relatively easy XML Reports install process, which simply need to be dropped into a folder, Mike's scripts need to be installed into the database manually. This can only be done by using Access or by installing SQL Server Management Studio Express (or similar) and running the scripts. It's quite a tricky process; one that many people wouldn't even attempt, and thus by not having them in the default Recorder install, these invaluable report wizard attributes are denied to the users that would find them most valuable.

Charles