> -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 May 2006 12:45 > To: Dave Page > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Reporting >
<snip factories discussion> This is done now. Just a tiny duplicate menu problem remains. > > > > I still do have a little problem of the overall feature. I do > understand > the need for reports, but the current approach seems quite limited to > me. In general, I'd expect that reports on single objects are not too > helpful; a quick glance at a property window should be enough in most > cases. I'd expect something like "list details on all functions in > schema A and all sequences and tables in schema B" as typical > requirement for a report on an application's db schema definition, > probably embedded in some explaining text, and with a table > of contents, > printed as PDF. This is quite hardly done from report > snippets that are > rendered full HTML. > > It could work like this: > - generate XML report snippets on everything needed in a > directory, or > appended to a common file. > - When all snippets are collected, render it to whatever is > desired with > XSL. OK, I'm a little more convinced of this now. Looking into it... /D ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
