Cédric,
the integration with JasperReport is rather old and by the way
JasperReport was never extensively used (at least in the standard OFBiz
trunk) to build reports in OFBiz.
Then we recently removed the JasperReport jars due to licensing issues
with GPL/LGPL code.
In general, I'd say that your real 'enemies' are the screen/form widgets
(that are a great tool to get simple list based html/PDF/xml reports)
and the screen/fo templates: I'm a big fan of these tools because are
highly integrated with the entity/service/security layers and I see a
great future for them.
Jacopo
PRONZATO Cedric RD-BIZZ-GRE wrote:
Damn I saw that there is some JasperReports in OFBiz but it is the enemy as I
am involved in JFreeReport.
Cédric,
-----Message d'origine-----
De : PRONZATO Cedric RD-BIZZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Envoyé : mardi 13 février 2007 10:26
À : dev@ofbiz.apache.org
Objet : RE: How to implement bulk printing of documents?
Hi Jacopo,
I would told you the following things:
- use a reporting framework and not something based on fop and xsl which is
realy power consuming not itext directly. I would use Pentaho Reporting (aka
JFreeReport http://reporting.pentaho.org/) on which the new version will be
heavily multi-threaded and which support xml templates. PS: I am also involved
in this project.
- I would not use the single document definition that is already in OFBiz. It
will restrict it so much later if you want to make groups, ...
Cédric,
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Jacopo Cappellato [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mardi 13 février 2007
09:20 À : dev@ofbiz.apache.org Objet : How to implement bulk printing of
documents?
What is the best/easiest way (if possible) to implement the bulk printing of a
set of PDF reports that share the same template (aka screen widget definition)?
For example, generate a big PDF with all the purchase orders in the created
approved status; the pdf can then be printed and so that the purchase orders
are sent by mail to the suppliers.
Ideally I'd like to reuse the existing screen definition that defines the
single document and just iterate over it and put the output into a single PDF
file.
Any hints/ideas on how to implement this?
Another interesting option would be that of bulk sending by email a set of
documents (for example one email per supplier with the attached purchase
order), but this is not very important for me at the moment, just one more wish
in my list.
Jacopo
