Re: [gnome-db] Reports

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 10:14, Santi Camps wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am just beginning a project using libgda, a web applications generator
> that builds html forms from database schema information and so on. 
> 
> I am also looking for some good method of easy generate Reports.  I have
> found some references to Gda Report in your documentation, and even I
> have looked some of your code (0.8.194 from CVS).  
> 
> I thing that, nowadays, libgda-report-2 provides data types and methods
> to define a report document, but nothing to put information in it or to
> print it, isn't it ?
> 
yes, that's all we've got implemented.

> What are you thinking to do in this way?  Some new widgets in libgnomedb
> or something more in libgda? 
> 
first of all, we need to add support to libgda-report to be able to
process a report and return the filled-in XML (XML report with data from
the database). Then, once this is done, we need, first, a UI for
previewing and printing the report, and then another UI to design the
reports.

> I think that libgda is a very good product, and if I can I will try to
> use libgda-reports too.  Congratulations for your work.
> 
I am about to write a list of features for the 1.0 release, and one of
them is the report stuff, which needs to be ready for a 1.0 release. I
am planning to work on it myself if nobody else does it, but I'd really
appreciate any help on that, so if you want, you can help on completing
the reporting framework in libgda.

cheers