Thanks anyway. I will go ahead with my simplistic approach for starters which will need a minimum of code and achieve the result I want - which is to enable me to distribute additional and modified reports without needing to change code and re-install the application. It will be for a single user app with a local database and will not allow any user input initially. Given those (considerable) caveats I believe the task will be trivial (but I may learn otherwise!).
Roger -------------------------------------------------- From: "johnf" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:22 AM To: "Dabo Users list" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [dabo-users] Report Runtime > On Tuesday 26 May 2009 03:15:42 pm Roger Lovelock wrote: >> I guess I have a more simplistic situation than most in that my app >> is >> a single user desktop app - so I have no complications with remote users >> and connections, though I understand where you are coming from. In my >> situation most reports are either viewed or printed - so displaying the >> report in a pdf viewer is adequate as I can view, print or save a file >> (for >> attachment to an email) from there - I'm intending to keep things very >> simple initially and possibly develop further as needed. You have a valid >> point re user input and the thought had crossed my mind. Again, I have a >> simplistic situation - a membership system - where typically I want all >> records listed in a report eg all members who haven't paid their annual >> dues, or all members with a birthday this month, so I don't typically get >> much user input to select in reports. >> Having said that, a more general and flexible tool is obviously better >> than a simplistic one that only fits one applications situation, and >> probably inevitably the requirements will expand over time anyway. It >> would >> seem unproductive to develop essentially the same thing twice. How >> advanced >> is your development and would you be willing to share the fruits of your >> labor? >> Regards >> Roger >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "johnf" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 12:20 AM >> To: "Dabo Users list" <[email protected]> > > > I would not mind but it wouldn't help you even a little. Everything, we > have > depends on so many other classes and tables that it would be useless to > you > and others. Building a generic reporting tool as I described is not easy. > I > may have something after the fifth or sixth rewrite. But for now - it's > not > much help to others. Even accepting report criteria from the user depends > on > to many of our classes. > > > > > -- > John Fabiani > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users > Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected] > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
