I inherited an online reporting/statistic web-app built with Spring and Jasper Reports.
After being exposed to that, it is safe to say that I wont vulentarily use Jasper in any future project, ever. I haven't followed any of the links here, but iReport is a pretty horrible program to work with as well if you intend to export the reports to Excel. I'm building a reporting app myself in django as a replacement for the Spring thingy I mentioned above. My approach is to roll my own reporting; based on a query and an lot of various configurations, I build an XML file with the query result and all the parameteres. Then I have various command-line applications that I call 'exporters'. I pipe the XML into the exporter, which is able to convert it to anything, and pipe the exporters output back into a file that I put up for download. It sounds a lot like 'not-invented-here' mentality, but with the requirement to export to virtually anything, plus the existing application was a mess, this was the best way to do it that I could think of. On Jun 12, 5:59 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded the screencast on it, which took forever, it looks pretty > crude right now. I'm sure it will develop over time, but my boss has > seen iReport for Jasper Reports before, which is why he was wanting me > to try and use that. > > I've done a form design tool for something else in Java a few years > ago... I'm toying with the idea of learning more about rfxml and > creating a java based designer for ReportLab...but that will probably > have to wait a while. > > On Jun 11, 9:14 pm, Carl Karsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Has anyone successfully used Jasper Reports on the server being called > > > from a Django view? > > > > I've done a few things with ReportLab, but we have the need for a > > > graphical Report Designer, which I don't believe exists for Report > > > Lab. > > > Check out:http://dabodev.com/documentation > > Report Designer Overview (Paul, 2006-02-13, 23 minutes) > > (gui report designer for reportlab) > > > I have never used it, but it looks pretty cool. > > > Carl K --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
