OK, well I do have some Ideas that can at least serve the purpose of starting some focused thinking..What I will do is create a mock up screen(s) and post them up here.
As an item for discussion separate from UIs is how to handle the different aggregate functions available with different engines? I suppose the list of functions supplied from Pentaho is a good starting point for a list of default ( in every configuration ) aggregates. [Min, Max, Avg, Sum..etc ] Once you get past these however, the different vendors offer some interesting choices for complex grouping. But for now then I'll make the mockups - post haste. Drew PS - Issue 77241. I know it is marked as resolved, but I have still been playing around with it..sort of. I have some numbers on time to produce reports in the thousands of pages range. My opinion is that the report engine is quick, even fast - when there isn't a lot of complex grouping anyway.. I read a GulFOSS about someone doing a build of OO.o on an old lattop - it took as I recall over 30 hours...so...I pushed a test database onto my old 98 box, and this morning started it on producing a report of 12,000 pages...I'll let you know what happens first - out of resouces or the report is rendered, and if so the time... On 5/29/07, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Andrew, > I noticed the update to the above issue today. Quick question - is > there already a plan for how you are going to make this available in > the designer? Not at all. We agreed that there needs to be a better UI for using aggregate functions (besides doing all this manual function definition stuff in the report navigator). We did not spend time on designing this. Speaking honestly, nearly everything will imagine here will not be able to meet 2.3: UI freeze for 2.3 is beginning of July, which is when the CWS has to be *nominated*. Add (better: subtract) two or three weeks for the final QA, and you'll see that any UI change needs to be finished soon, or has to wait for 2.4 ... So, if you want to start a discussion how this could look like, you're welcome. Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
