Analytics - "Loud and Proud"?
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Using+BIRT+with+OFBiz
could benefit from some example screenshots and a short desscription of
what BIRT can do in terms of reports, charts, dashboards, interactive
drilldown, etc.
Perhaps someone could tart up the page to make the case for BIRT and
help people understand why the investment in learning BIRT is worthwhile.
How heavily is BIRT built into other modules to provide graphics for
presenting search results or summary data for managers?
I am a JasperReports fan and have not used BIRT.
Ron
On 26/02/2015 5:15 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Sounds a good idea but minor to me, "Analytics" shows off a bit, maybe
time for it :D
A good README in the birt root with a link to
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Using+BIRT+with+OFBiz would
help!
Jacques
Le 26/02/2015 00:46, Pierre Smits a écrit :
Hi all,
Currently, all component names describe - in one word - what the
components
are about and what kind of functionality the user - from a business
point
of view - can expect. As examples: accounting is related to the various
accounting (financial, gl, invoicing, payment, , etc) functions and
services, and projectmgr is related to program and project management,
project task assignment and time registration.
The birt component is a bit the odd one out. The name doesn't say in
that
one word what it delivers. In stead it is an acronym for a specific
third
party integration solution and another open source project with the same
name (birt, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIRT_Project ). One could
even say it is the name of a tool, not the name of a business
functionality.
In order to be able to increase awareness of the multitude of business
functionalities (as could be done by using the name of the
components) and
improve adoption, I suggest to change the name (and the references to
it in
the component and others) to something that is more to the point
business
wise.
I propose we rename it to 'reports'.
What do you think?
Best regards,
Pierre Smits
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