[consulting] Reports in Drupal

[Donald A. Lobo]

at civicrm, we've chosen to use BIRT (http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/) 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)

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

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

lobo


----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Matuschka <customerservice at caignwebs.com.au>
To: consulting at drupal.org
Sent: Friday, March 7, 2008 6:40:53 PM
Subject: [consulting] Reports in Drupal

Has anyone had a need to generate and display reports in Drupal? If so, how
have you done it?

There doesn't seem to be anything close to a generic report writer
available. You could use a third party tool like Crystal Reports, but that
doesn't integrate of course. So is it just down to custom coding for each
report / coding your own system from scratch?

All comments and suggestions welcome.

--
Mark Matuschka
www.caignwebs.com.au

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