[consulting] Reports in Drupal

[forest mars]

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.

cheers,

Forest Mars
-- 
"In theory, theory and practice are exactly the same.
 In practice, they're completely different."


On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:05 AM, Clemens Tolboom <clemens at build2be.nl> wrote:

> Interesting solution. Thanks for the pointer.
>
> Do you have some 'lessons learned' from this? Discussion lists?
>
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 23:03 -0800, Donald A. Lobo wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
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