> Reporting > > I think we definetly need a common ground here or not write our own. > Unforuntly i already wrote my own, papyrus (stealing ideas from gnomedb) > when there was nothing providing reporting, now there are dozens of > reporting solutions out there (half are java/html though). Linas, i > know how reports are done in gnucash and they are dynamic. A reporting > system should generate pdfs,ps,xml,html etc. And use the database low > level abstraction library. Can gnomedb people use papyrus or another > reporting engine, what is gnomedbs requirements? Linas, maybe a gtk > output engine or a xml to gladexml converter, or use the existing html > output engine to allow you to embedded report into a gui before > preview/print? Would you consider xml approach? > Can gnome-db provide a highlevel reporting gui? One where you can run > reports, it asks for arguments for the reports and excutes the report? > Or where you can type an sql statement and it will put results into a > report. Think mergeant reporting. > Can gnumeric/abiword provide mail merge features from xml report? >
AbiWord can do mailmerge right now. With a bit of hacking we can support live database feeds. I've just openned discussions with Rodrigo about these on this list. With a bit more hacking we support direct feeds into defined locations in the document from an external source. Ie the source "pushes" data into defined location. But for this we need a clear idea of how to securely make the connection. > After a quick look here is the different reporting libraries i found. > If you know of others that work well suggest them. > http://rlib.sicompos.com/ > (havn't looked into in detail) > http://papyrus.treshna.com/ > (lacks chart and editable content but is mature) > Making editable reports is *far* harder than generating them. I suggest you look at either Conglomerate or AbiWord. I think Conglomerate could be a good fit to papyrus. Jody has just about liberated the Gnumeric charting package into libgnomeoffice so it makes sense to use that. I don't know if it makes sense sense to reuse all the powerful numeric and statistical features inside Gnumeric. From the outside there appears to be the potential for signficant overlap. > Report Designer. > > None of have anything here (expect gnue). Its needed. I was thinking > orginally using openoffice or abiword to design reports but i really > havn't started looking at this at any detail. Any suggestions on how we > are going to achive this? Does this sound feasible? > Either AbiWord or Conglomerate. I think Conglomerate is a good fit for what papyrus is now. AbiWord would be quite a radical depature and the document would be constructed "live" straight from the template. From there we can export it to any one of your chosen file formats (ps,pdf,latex,html) plus a whole lot more. > The Politics. > > Do we all fall under gnomes ? We have to at some point stop focusing on > these low level tools and start making some real applications. And know > where to share code where we can. Maybe have a common organisational > group we can all belong to with links to our sites with, like gnome > office and list what we each work on? so we know what each other is up > to and have a common banner to achieve our vison. I would in a way like > one day to have a website we we list a whole lot of database > applications for gnome. > I agree on the need to focus on complex application. It has been hard in general to attract hackers to complex projects. Given that the group doing Gnome-Office has self-selected into working on complex-apps, I think it is best to put database apps under the the Gnome_office banner. We can cross fertilize and use our GUI apps in ways not usually thought of. I see the possibilities for code sharing and genuinely innovative features from the marriage of our strengths. Martin _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
