On 22/10/2006, at 4:27 AM, Tore Halset wrote:
The end result is that all the customisable reports and images can be managed in the database and edited by the user whenever they want. Pretty simple, but it works well.Interesting. How are your users editing their reports? Using iReport?
So far, this feature has not been released, so that remains to be seen. I suspect it will work like this:
* we get to advertise "completely customisable reports"* the end user can use iReport (which is what we use) or anything else to edit the jxml files, but they have to know how to do this. Most will find this too hard. * most end users will come back to us and we will customise the report for them and send them the appropriate jxml files. * some end users will figure out only enough to customise a logo or some other small element, which may be enough for them.
But it has been pretty painless to embed Jasper inside Cayenne. You just have to think about the $P{} tag as a way to pass values into Jasper and the $F{} tag as a type of callback for Jasper to pass a key and get some result (string, subreport, image, etc) back from Cayenne.
Our release in about two weeks will use Jasper but not expose the user report editing GUI. The next release after that, close to the end of the year will expose that editing view for the user.
Cheers Ari Maniatis --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A
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