Eclipse BIRT can be a better choice. It is CPL and I think compatible
with Apache License. BIRT also have a WYSIWYG designer.
Thanks,
Raj
David E. Jones wrote:
Yes, that's right, and a good point Jacques. We wouldn't be able to
include the libraries, so this really couldn't realistically become
the best practice tool for OFBiz.
-David
On Feb 13, 2007, at 3:51 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
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
