You think that it might be more aspirational than real?
http://bod-wiki.birtondemand.com/wiki/index.php?title=App_Mashboard is
the kind of thing that I expect OFBiz to support one day.
Perhaps a more ambitious name might encourage someone to take an
interest in enhancing the capabilities.
"BIRT" is just the name of a tool and gives no idea about what
functionality is possible.
"Reports" seems to understate what BIRT can do.
I am not sure of the work required to enhance the existing interface to
produce more of what BIRT can do OOTB but it seems to be something
pretty easy
http://www.theserverside.com/news/1364376/Using-Eclipse-BIRT-Report-Libraries-and-Templates
Ron
On 26/02/2015 9:19 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
My main concern is that assigning a generic name (such as "reports" or
"analytics") to a component that is just one very specific way (and in some ways
limited/questionable for the way the Birt has been integrated) to implement an integration with a
reporting tool may be misleading.
Jacopo
On Feb 26, 2015, at 12:46 AM, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
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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