One of my clients wants to export vehicle data out of my TeamTrack application to a text file for some reason. Not sure exactly why, and I am not sure I am allowed to know why. Anyway, There is a way – export to Access MDB, and then export to TEXT file from there. But this is messy. I then thought about the correct way to do this – use crystal reports to generate a report, and then save this to a text file, or to Excel.

The only problem with this at the moment is that I am having an issue generating the reports when the source data is an access database rather than a webservice. I am not sure what is going on – it could be a scoping issue, or it could be one of many other things. I need to resolve this, but so far I am just hitting a brick wall. I do not seem to be getting anywhere. ARGH. I will look at it later.

I also had a phone call from another client this morning… He was telling me that the GPS system he installed allowed his business not only to keep up with the christmas rush when the other people in his industry were too congested, but it also allowed his company to expand. That is a fantastic cost benefit for my client. And good news since he is looking at buying some new tracking units too!