Re: Report API and Catalog

Those are the ad-hoc features that I've planned so far, anyway.

Nice! That's exactly what I am talking about!

I wonder what the i world would be like if there were as many RPG developers
thinking out of the box, like you have here, similar in number to the
Java/PHP camp. Kinda leads me to my next question to the group as a whole.


Does RPG make a good "plumbing" or "framework base" type language? This is
where Java with all it's OO complexities sometimes excels, but then suffers
as a business logic language (a space I get the feeling EGL has the
potential to fill, though the jury is still out on that).

Thoughts?
Aaron Bartell

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I appreciate your input, Aaron. This is still a work in process. Did
you notice the tab labeled "Parameters" on the Work With Reports screen?
I'm just starting to implement that.

I envision a programmer adding a report definition record for every
report program written. And if the report program is able to receive
parameters then the programmer could define them (data type, data
length, prompts, etc.) using the Parameters tab. And create a generic
report launcher to prompt users for parameters - before submitting the
job.

Those are the ad-hoc features that I've planned so far, anyway.

Nathan M. Andelin


On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:43 AM, Aaron Bartell wrote:

The one thing I didn't understand is how input data was mapped to the
various programs (in potentially a dynamic fashion). So for instance
let's
say a HighSchool teacher wanted a listing of all students with a grade
A
average or better for the honor roll, she would want to enter a date
range,
maybe a class level (freshman, sophomore, etc), and the grade level to
include (i.e. A and above).

What I have found in open source report tooling is that the power of
the
tool is it's ability to have reports built by a power user that have
dynamic-ness built in (i.e. criteria fields).

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

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