+1
We use JasperReports with our software
It has many of the same characteristics identified below.
Ron
On 25/03/2015 6:44 AM, Taher Alkhateeb wrote:
Hi Jacques,
With respect to your question below on BIRT and regardless of whether
reports are failing or not IMHO we should discuss the principles.
So the question is very simple. Is it better to use Apache FOP with the
screen widgets to create reports or is it better to utilize a reporting and
business intelligence engine?
To me, this is a no brainer. A full blown engine is definitely better (even
if not necessarily BIRT) for the following reasons:
1- Designer WYSIWYG tools available for much greater productivity and user
friendliness. You can even expose such tools directly to your clients.
2- Ability to design data set, cubes, parameters, charts, graphs, master
pages with headers and footers, and a lot more
3- Ability to do dynamic scripting of the data on an event model which
allows for maximum flexibility in design
4- Ability to export output to many formats (PDF, HTML, word, excel, CSV,
...)
5- Ability to specify unified report libraries containing shared themes,
master pages, javascript source files, CSS, images, etc ...
6- Ability to deploy the reporting server as a standalone solution
7- Ability to integrate with the entity engine or to connect directly to
the database.
8- Building reports on a modular design structure
The above is just a quick brain dump, I am sure there are many other
benefits.
My 2 cents.
Taher Alkhateeb
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Jacopo Cappellato <
[email protected]> wrote:
On Mar 25, 2015, at 10:55 AM, Jacques Le Roux <
[email protected]> wrote:
Can we say that the Birt reports are better? Do they always work (I got
some issues there)
No, I wouldn't say that (of course you are free to think otherwise, it is
just the *we* part that I disagree with).
Also just tried
http://demo-stable-ofbiz.apache.org/accounting/control/FinancialSummaryReportOptions?organizationPartyId=Company
where Birt is not and all reports fail, normal?
I am not sure I understand... I got the same errors with or without Birt:
the request maps are not defined; I don't see how this bug fits into this
conversation.
But for example, the balance sheet report:
https://localhost:8443/accounting/control/BalanceSheet?organizationPartyId=Company
is not a Birt report and works well; however the if you click on the
"Export as pdf" button you get an error when Birt is active while it works
when Birt is inactive.
Jacopo
Jacques
Le 24/03/2015 16:36, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit :
The accounting component has financial reports implemented as screen
widgets (html/pdf/csv) that the Birt component overrides with different
ones implemented with Birt.
This is actually one example about a specialpurpose component that is
overriding/hiding functionality that is already provided by the
applications with a different one: you can't see them when Birt is enabled.
Jacopo
On Mar 24, 2015, at 4:23 PM, Pierre Smits <[email protected]>
wrote:
Don't we also have dependencies on birt? Regarding reporting in
accounting
and order?
Best regards,
Pierre Smits
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