changing report .xsl

[Shelagh Manton]

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On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:49:37 -0700
Robby Stephenson <robby at periapsis.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 25 October 2006 8:52, Merv Curley wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 10:06, Mathias Monnerville wrote:
> > > Don't you think it could be a great idea to implement some kind of
> > > report manager for Tellico ? I think many people doesn't know what
> > > what XSL(T) is and how to deal with it. Or maybe they don't want
> > > to.
> > >
> > > Giving the user the ability to build simple reports within Tellico
> > > could be a nice new  feature. Maybe implementing a wizard-like
> > > dialog with a few simple steps would be great. Then the wizard
> > > would generate XSL-T code on-the-fly which could be used by
> > > Tellico...
> >
> > I haven't tried to print any special reports, but Robbies first
> > answer in this thread didn't help me a lot. I don't know whee to
> > find line 39 for starters.
> 
> Shelagh was looking at the Column View report, which is created from
> the Column_View.xsl file that gets installed with Tellico. So line 39
> refers to that file.
> 
> > I know Reports are a tough thing to implement, the financial
> > program 'Moneydance' has more requests for better reports than any
> > other enhancement. But I certainly agree that if we have to be
> > programmers to make specialized reports, then anything should be
> > better than that.
> 
> A form designer has been on the back burner for a while. One thing
> I've been keeping in mind about using KexiDB for the SQL backend is
> that Kexi has its own form designer, which you could use to query the
> Tellico database.
> 
> There's a lot of code in a form designer and I've been reluctant to
> tackle it. And right now, I want to start focusing more on Tellico 2,
> etc., so there won't be any major new features until I get the SQL
> stuff figured out.

Have you thought about using sqlite ? instead of a full sql server which
in my experience is a right royal pain to set up. This means that the
full relational experience is enjoyed with one file instead of a server
client setup.

Shelagh
> 
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> 
> Robby
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