>Pentaho Reporting (JFreeReport) is in LGPL I'm afraid that some licence problems are ahead...
Jacques ----- Original Message ----- From: "PRONZATO Cedric RD-BIZZ-GRE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <dev@ofbiz.apache.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 11:06 AM Subject: RE: How to implement bulk printing of documents? > 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 > > > > >
