Just thought I'd let you know that the Manhattan Neighborhood is/will be using the BIRT tool, and will definitely let you know how this works out, both pro and con. <br><br>cheers, <br><br>Forest Mars<br>-- <br>"In theory, theory and practice are exactly the same. <br>
In practice, they're completely different."<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:05 AM, Clemens Tolboom <<a href="mailto:clemens@build2be.nl">clemens@build2be.nl</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Interesting solution. Thanks for the pointer.<br>
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Do you have some 'lessons learned' from this? Discussion lists?<br>
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On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 23:03 -0800, Donald A. Lobo wrote:<br>
> at civicrm, we've chosen to use BIRT (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/" target="_blank">http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/</a>) which is an open source (but with origins and support from a commercial company (actuate)) report writer using java/tomcat. The front end to build reports is quite nice (assuming u have a machine powerful enough to run java on a desktop, eclipse is a bit of a resource hog)<br>
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> We've been fairly happy with it, though it is only applicable to large consulting companies and orgs who have the resources and machines to do a java/tomcat deployment. we did not find any reasonable php report writer<br>
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> The integration is at the database level (i.e. no integration). but since its open source and with the php-java bridge there is some potential to do stuff if needed<br>
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> lobo<br>
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