I have written many custom reports in Crystal Reports, Access, and Visual
FoxPro that access the BB database through the backend via and ODBC
connection. As Tom said earlier you do need a copy of the data schema, but
the end results can be quick and impressive.
Scott Schaffer
IT Manager
Heschel Day School
818-368-5781 x508
>Hi,
>
>Forgive me for jumping on one snippet of a larger conversation, but I
>would be very interested in any wisdom you have on accessing Blackbaud
>DB's. I priced the API and we quickly decided that was not for us.
>Still, being able to grab data from various the various database would
>come in handy. A few years ago I made some initial successful
>experiments, but it wasn't easy enough to convince me to continue.
>
>Cheers,
>Vern
>
>Thomas Phelan wrote:
>> I've built a number of custom ASP apps (e.g. warning list,
>grade/progress
>> report look up tool, ...) that pull data from Blackbaud tables. If you
>want
>> some insight into the possibilities regarding building solutions that
>> seamlessly use Blackbaud data (no exporting required) but don't rely on
>> their clunky and expensive API I might be able to help.
Scott Schaffer
IT Manager
Heschel Day School
818-368-5781 x508
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