I imagine it's very similar to CustomView Report Writer/Runner (which sadly is also Windows only last time I checked). I've been looking for something similar under linux myself and haven't been very successful either. What I may end up doing is just setting up a Zope server to connect to our report database (for an ACD phone system, everything gets logged to an sql database) and manually create the reports that people want. This solution will make initial report setup more work, but it'll be much easier to distribute the reports, I can just point them to a URL on our intranet. I'm still in the "thinking about it" stage though, so if you find a better solution for report creation I'd love to hear about it. Jeff On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:50:01AM -0500, Nate Straz wrote: > > What does Crystal Reports do exactly? > > It loads up a database schema and lets you drag'n'drop columns from > the schema to create reports. You can also set up 'bands' which > repeat for detail records, etc. Pretty much the standard GUI report > creation tool in the MS world. (I'm sure it does other stuff, too, > since I've never worked with it directly and even that was a few > years ago, but that's the core functionality.) > >