Re: [Koha-devel] Reports engine

[paul POULAIN]

Pierre Cauchois wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I've been thinking of coding a reports engine for a few days, but i'm sure i'm 
> not the only one to have ideas about that, so i'd like to know what you think 
> about it, and if something has already been done.
>
> i see it as a user-friendly interface, which would be used to edit the 
> configuration files of the rssKoha package. I think using rssKoha is a good 
> point because it let us format the reports the way we want, using a XSLT 
> stylesheet.
>
> So, if you"re interested or if you have already work on something like that, 
> i'd be glad to hear from you.
>
> /pierre
>  
I think that what Koha needs is :
* a user friendly tool to create requests.
* a user friendly tool to create "templates" reports.
* something to merge requests & "templates" reports to create nice reports.
* the reports should be outputed :
- on screen (html)
- in PDF for nice printing
- in StyleSheet form.

There are already some tools to do this or parts of this. We already 
named some :

  GDA (the GNOME DB interface)
  JasperReports (http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/) => in Java
  Agata Report (http://agata.codigolivre.org.br/) => in PHP
  DataVision (http://datavision.sourceforge.net/) => in Java

also look at : morinn.free.fr/koha/canned_reports.htm

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)