Re: Ad-hoc reporting tool?
Re: Ad-hoc reporting tool?
- Subject: Re: Ad-hoc reporting tool?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:23:45 -0400
Hi Pascal,
Jeff Simpson at YFU (Youth For Understanding) created
a WO system just like you describe. Jeff is the one that also works with
DB2. Ping him about this.
His creation was slick enough that each user could
have "saved reports" of their own creation that they could easily
rerun when they wanted. It was a good way to get statistics and vital information
for internal use.
If you want something "pretty" or more presentable
for upper management or outside use probably Jasper reports could be the
way to go.
Jeff used "Scriptura" to interface with
WO via SOAP. It gave somewhat tech savvy end users the ability to design
their own forms in a wysiwig editor and pull elements from WO. It gave
that "polished" look that might be necessary. It freed Jeff from
having to keep designing reports. He only needed to show them the GUI tool
and expose business objects to the SOAP interface.
http://www.inventivedesigners.com/products/scriptura
I'm not sure exactly what hooks Scriptura has over
Jasper Reports. From a distance iReport (Jasper) seemed similar but I don't
know if it has a SOAP or other interface you can hook into.
-- Aaron
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:23:34 -0400
From: Pascal Robert <email@hidden>
Subject: Ad-hoc reporting tool?
To: WebObjects Development <email@hidden>
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Anyone have seen a ad-hoc reporting tool that can work over an EOModel?
My ex-employer use Oracle Discoverer, who happens to use a model-like tool
to create entities and attributes over Oracle tables and views (an attribute
can also be a calculated one, or a call to a stored procedure). But that
means that when a new attribute is added, it must be added in a EOModel
and in the Discoverer model, same thing for logic.
So, does anyone have seen a tool that exposes entities and attributes out
of loaded models and allow users to select them to create lists and other
basic report types?
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