David, I am happy and for sure I will not leave OFBiz without adding JFreeReport support or I am not a man!
Cédric, -----Message d'origine----- De : David E. Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mardi 13 février 2007 10:54 À : dev@ofbiz.apache.org Objet : Re: How to implement bulk printing of documents? Cedric, I think in general most OFBiz users are not too happy with JasperReports, and we have pretty much decided against using it as the best practice tool for reporting in OFBiz. If you'd be interested in working on an integration to easily use JFreeReport with OFBiz (ie a request handler and such to make the reports available from within OFBiz webapps), and on creating a couple of sample reports we could certainly include those and start reviewing that as the best practice reporting tool. Actually, to some extent there is a best-practice tool now that you can create XSL:FO files very easily from OFBiz screen and form widgets. These have a number of nice things about them, but we still don't have a visual tool for creating them, which is something a lot of people are looking for in a reporting solution. -David On Feb 13, 2007, at 2:40 AM, 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] > ftgroup.com] 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 > >
