I am about ready to go to beta with my add on for the BKeeney Shorts Reporting add on. While I work on documentation I thought I’d throw a sample app up for anyone who wishes to try it out. My goal is to get some testers to test this sample app focusing on the result rather than the code. At the end of the beta testing I will open source the code for anyone brave enough to try and make sense of it
There is no documentation included at this point but several demo reports/databases and one 2 page Before you start pdf.
Hi Peter,
is the integration with apps not yet available or I’m missing something?
Thanks
Luciano
P.S.
Using the designer can not display the menu to add the band elements (rectangle, image, etc.).
I tried everything ctrl + left click, ctrl + right click, only right or left click and so on but 98% is displayed the menu to handle the object (move forward, etc.).
On the band there is not selected items.
The report designer is desktop only at this point. Even with the new web drag and drop I don’t think we’ll be able to accomplish what we need.
Since Shorts itself can work in web apps the report generation from the JSON definition string should work. We’ll have to create a new web project to test that and that might be a while.
There are really two ways I see people using the designer.
Provide full report capability within your client’s application. *You can limit the schema the end user has access to for reporting down to the field level.
Provide hooks for the user to run reports you provide for them. It would not be difficult to have opening the report file present a dialog for setting criteria such as a date range, etc. All interaction with the database uses prepared statements so this would be a safe approach. (This may be built in at release)
Web could be handled with an external (desktop) editor to create the reports launched by the web app.