No comment about the report builder in CF7, but.. say I have a report, and they want the report to be able to export to PDF, HTML, WORD and EXCEL? What would be the best way?
As far as I know jasper will do all these formats, apart from WORD, which may not be a problem, cause surely I could just change the doc type and get it to save as a .doc? and let Word do the processing. Generate my own style of xml, and parse it differently for each format? Or write one report, and let Jasper handle it? How do POI and iText work? What are their API's like I'm not sure I haven't spent the time to look at them. I am open for ideas, the problem I'm facing is speed, once I have the data I want to be able to generate a report in all 4 formats in less than 6 hours.. and currently. Its taking around 12. (which isn't including the HTML option, I think we are removing it as a format). Gareth. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rod Higgins Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2005 6:29 PM To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] Re: CF AND EXPORTING DATA INTO AN EXCEL FILE > JasperReports is a reporting system that will use iText to generate the > PDF and other methods to generate the excel, xml or html formats, just > haven't managed to get it to work 100%. Why bother learning another layer? Jasper uses POI and iText. POI and iText have pretty decent API's on their own so I cant see why you would move to Jasper. Are the reporting GUI's really that good? Have you looked at the ReportBuilder with CF7 is the Jasper tool at the same level of functionality? Just curious. Rod --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
