Dev - creating reports with BIRT

[Si Chen-2]

Hi everybody.

Leon and I spent some time looking at BIRT as a reporting solution for
OFBiz, and we found it to be pretty good.  We wrote a little tutorial on
how to use BIRT:
http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/ofbiz-birt.pdf

Please let us know what you think.

Si
 
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[davidnwelton]

> Leon and I spent some time looking at BIRT as a reporting solution for
> OFBiz, and we found it to be pretty good.  We wrote a little tutorial on
> how to use BIRT:
> http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/ofbiz-birt.pdf
>
> Please let us know what you think.

Looks nice, but I think it's missing "the icing on the cake" - how to
make it generate bright, colorful, boss-friendly charts:-)  Probably
isn't much more work once you have the data, and it makes it that much
more attractive.

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[Ruth Hoffman]

Looks really nice.

Some time ago, I did some work with Jfreechart that allowed for the
dynamic creation of all kinds of "boss-friendly" charts/graphs that were
inserted into an Ofbiz/Freemarker page as src images when the page was
initially created. I'm not sure how hard it would be to add Jfreechart
capabilities to BIRT.

On a similar topic - are there any words of wisdom concerning using
Apache FOP for creating dynamic PDFs from my OFbiz web pages? I'd like
to put a button on my catalog pages that when pressed, automatically
creates a PDF of the currently viewed catalog.

TIA
Ruth

David Welton wrote:

>>Leon and I spent some time looking at BIRT as a reporting solution for
>>OFBiz, and we found it to be pretty good.  We wrote a little tutorial on
>>how to use BIRT:
>>http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/ofbiz-birt.pdf
>>
>>Please let us know what you think.
>>    
>>
>
>Looks nice, but I think it's missing "the icing on the cake" - how to
>make it generate bright, colorful, boss-friendly charts:-)  Probably
>isn't much more work once you have the data, and it makes it that much
>more attractive.
>
>--
>David N. Welton
> - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/
>
>Linux, Open Source Consulting
> - http://www.dedasys.com/
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[Leon Torres-2]

David Welton wrote:
 >>Leon and I spent some time looking at BIRT as a reporting solution for
 >>OFBiz, and we found it to be pretty good.  We wrote a little tutorial on
 >>how to use BIRT:
 >>http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/ofbiz-birt.pdf
 >>
 >>Please let us know what you think.
 >
 >
 > Looks nice, but I think it's missing "the icing on the cake" - how to
 > make it generate bright, colorful, boss-friendly charts:-)  Probably
 > isn't much more work once you have the data, and it makes it that much
 > more attractive.

Hm, maybe the bosses would prefer one of the available bar, line or pie
graphs instead.  We'll add a section for icing on the cake as you suggest
at some point.

- Leon
 
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[Leon Torres-2]

Yes, there are some FOP files written in ftl for generating PDFs. Search
for files that end in .fo.ftl for examples.  In my experience, it works
pretty well, although learning it is very trial and error, kind of like
CSS, but much more tedious.

However, if your query is more report like and will end up being quite
complex, it might be better to use something like BIRT.

- Leon

Ruth Hoffman wrote:

> Looks really nice.
>
> Some time ago, I did some work with Jfreechart that allowed for the
> dynamic creation of all kinds of "boss-friendly" charts/graphs that were
> inserted into an Ofbiz/Freemarker page as src images when the page was
> initially created. I'm not sure how hard it would be to add Jfreechart
> capabilities to BIRT.
>
> On a similar topic - are there any words of wisdom concerning using
> Apache FOP for creating dynamic PDFs from my OFbiz web pages? I'd like
> to put a button on my catalog pages that when pressed, automatically
> creates a PDF of the currently viewed catalog.
>
> TIA
> Ruth
>
> David Welton wrote:
>
>
>>>Leon and I spent some time looking at BIRT as a reporting solution for
>>>OFBiz, and we found it to be pretty good.  We wrote a little tutorial on
>>>how to use BIRT:
>>>http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/ofbiz-birt.pdf
>>>
>>>Please let us know what you think.
>>>  
>>>
>>
>>Looks nice, but I think it's missing "the icing on the cake" - how to
>>make it generate bright, colorful, boss-friendly charts:-)  Probably
>>isn't much more work once you have the data, and it makes it that much
>>more attractive.
>>
>>--
>>David N. Welton
>>- http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/
>>
>>Linux, Open Source Consulting
>>- http://www.dedasys.com/
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[Ruth Hoffman]

Thanks much!

Leon Torres wrote:

>Yes, there are some FOP files written in ftl for generating PDFs. Search
>for files that end in .fo.ftl for examples.  In my experience, it works
>pretty well, although learning it is very trial and error, kind of like
>CSS, but much more tedious.
>
>However, if your query is more report like and will end up being quite
>complex, it might be better to use something like BIRT.
>
>- Leon
>
>Ruth Hoffman wrote:
>  
>
>>Looks really nice.
>>
>>Some time ago, I did some work with Jfreechart that allowed for the
>>dynamic creation of all kinds of "boss-friendly" charts/graphs that were
>>inserted into an Ofbiz/Freemarker page as src images when the page was
>>initially created. I'm not sure how hard it would be to add Jfreechart
>>capabilities to BIRT.
>>
>>On a similar topic - are there any words of wisdom concerning using
>>Apache FOP for creating dynamic PDFs from my OFbiz web pages? I'd like
>>to put a button on my catalog pages that when pressed, automatically
>>creates a PDF of the currently viewed catalog.
>>
>>TIA
>>Ruth
>>
>>David Welton wrote:
>>
>>
>>    
>>
>>>>Leon and I spent some time looking at BIRT as a reporting solution for
>>>>OFBiz, and we found it to be pretty good.  We wrote a little tutorial on
>>>>how to use BIRT:
>>>>http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/ofbiz-birt.pdf
>>>>
>>>>Please let us know what you think.
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Looks nice, but I think it's missing "the icing on the cake" - how to
>>>make it generate bright, colorful, boss-friendly charts:-)  Probably
>>>isn't much more work once you have the data, and it makes it that much
>>>more attractive.
>>>
>>>--
>>>David N. Welton
>>>- http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/
>>>
>>>Linux, Open Source Consulting
>>>- http://www.dedasys.com/
>>>
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