Re: Birt for existing accounting reports (was Re: [VOTE] reintroduce the evicted specialpurpose components in R13.07)

2015-03-25 Thread Pierre Smits
Hence a +1, especially if you want utilise the olap fucntions in the bi component in a separate rdbms (see issue OFBIZ-6087 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6087) Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM http://www.orrtiz.com* Services Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing,

Re: Birt for existing accounting reports (was Re: [VOTE] reintroduce the evicted specialpurpose components in R13.07)

2015-03-25 Thread Jacques Le Roux
I have opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6212 for that Jacques Le 25/03/2015 12:01, Jacques Le Roux a écrit : Thanks Taher, I agree on Birt being useful in general, and in OFBiz certainly (Jacopo at least thinks it could be better implemented, that's another topic). My

Re: Birt for existing accounting reports (was Re: [VOTE] reintroduce the evicted specialpurpose components in R13.07)

2015-03-25 Thread Pierre Smits
To Report or Not To Report, that is the question? First: I agree with the viewpoint that optionals in special purpose don't change the experience of apps in the applications stack. A good example modification to a longer existing issue regarding the field parentCustRequestId. In such cases we

Re: Birt for existing accounting reports (was Re: [VOTE] reintroduce the evicted specialpurpose components in R13.07)

2015-03-25 Thread Taher Alkhateeb
Hi Pierre, A quick note on the pros mentioned by you: integrating BIRT to the RDBMS is optional. You can do that or call the APIs of the entity engine and in fact this is how reports are currently implemented (it's called scripted data set source in BIRT). You can also fully integrate with the

Birt for existing accounting reports (was Re: [VOTE] reintroduce the evicted specialpurpose components in R13.07)

2015-03-25 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Thanks Taher, I agree on Birt being useful in general, and in OFBiz certainly (Jacopo at least thinks it could be better implemented, that's another topic). My question was more is it useful for existing accounting reports? Jacopo seems to say that there were already FOP implementations what