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I have to produce multiple reports on a regular basis; same reports are produced for the whole customer base.
My problem is that designing the layout of the reports is long and tedious job.
What I need is a GUI tool for designing the layout of the reports.
The output of the tool should be xsl file that will used for creating reports in batch. Additional option is that the toll will provide a library that will allow build a customized batch process for report creation based on GUI layout definitions.
Thanks
If you are looking for an open source tool give BIRT (http://www.eclipse.org/birt/) a try.
If I understand right, you are using reports in HTML form from XML data, right?
If is not "XSL file" condition for reporting, try some reporting tool. They has designer, exports to pdf/html/doc/etc..., someones also end-user-designer and much more.
My response for similar question: Crystal Reports .Net Guidance
We (the company I work for) produce a tool called RSinteract. I don't know if it's exactly what you're looking for since you have not specified the data source you're reporting on.
If you want to stick to an XSL Altova's Stylevision product. If you're interested in looking at a third party tool that saves reports in another XML dialect look at our products at http://www.datadynamics.com
Scott Willeke
Data Dynamics / GrapeCity
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i am trying to learn ASP.Net MVC2/3 and trying to work on a web project that will actually be a blogging project. So i would have the similar structure as a normal blog looks like. I would have title, blog entry, some tags and other stuff. Now i want suggestion on using database. Since the blog entry i.e. an article would be a text with multiple paragraphs and might also contain some images. So i was wondering what kind of database should be good to store these texts. I can use SQL for storing text but not sure if it would be fast enough. Any suggestions on where can i get or i should say learn about good database design for such application.
Also it would be helpful if anyone can suggest a good source for ASP.net MVC3 learning. I can look online for tutorials, but some good books for beginners would be helpful.
Any suggestion would be great.
Thanks. :)
download sqlExpress from Microsoft, it will be plenty fast enough to store/retrieve text, it's free and it works well with .net
I think the easiest way to store the posts would be to store the text as HTML, with tags that point to somewhere in your file structure. When you add an image, you upload it to that directory, and generate a link for it.
Take a look at how wordpress works, that should give you plenty of ideas for writing your own code.
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I'm looking for options that allow me to start small in term of license commitments. Open source will not be a problem.
What we need is a dashboard reporting application that can have interactive components (user can filter or drill down by interacting with the charts, and those kind of fancy stuff), and also have a WYSIWYG editor that allow non-technical users to create and modify dashboards. Basically something like inetsoft dashboard.
Is there such thing at all?
In terms of open source, Pentaho BI Suite is probably the best open source BI suite I've come across and they have the Pentaho Dashboard Designer which is aimed at the power user (so non tech users can use it).
I've deployed Pentaho in several medium organisations and have had power users designing reports and dashboards through the implementation period with little troubles (providing some initial training is given).
Depending on the format and size of your DWH, you might also find that Excel (assuming you already have licenses) can provide pretty decent drag-and-drop dashboards as well.
are you looking for SaaS or On-premise software? You would recommend some BI tool for you. I would not recommend Excel for such kind of reporting due to very limited sharing/dataset possibilities.
Peter
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I'm looking for a free UPC or Barcode database that is available for download. I have seen upcdataBase.com and a few others, but those do not allow for a free download of the db. File type is not a huge issue as I can work with SQL, csv, text, XML, json or anything else.
Anyone know where I can find one? I do not want a web service, I need an actual file or method of downloading all of the upcs or barcodes someone has. A large inclusive db would be great, but even a partial db would be great.
Thanks
Logical Solutions (http://www.LogicalSo.com) sells UPC barcode datamining software that scans the web for barcodes and product names, and build a database for you.
Gregg London sells UPC databases in the form of a "Product Load Service". There is more information on their site: http://www.glondon.com/upcdatabase.html
You probably can make a quick mashup using: searchupc.com and upcdata.info and then retrieve product information from google product API.
Also, you can use AWSECommerceService API to retrieve something like this:
ItemLookupRequest request = new ItemLookupRequest();
request.getResponseGroup().add("Large");
request.setIdType("UPC"); // TODO: need to change if it's EAC
request.getItemId().add(upc);
request.setSearchIndex("All");
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We in our organization are trying to implement a source code quality management tool. SonarQube is one such tool that we have come across, and it's quite full of features and is phenomenal. We want to compare it with its peers, if there are any, before we actually implement it.
Are there any good contenders to Sonar's capabilities and features?
Squale (free)
Kalistick
MetrixWare
Cast
Panopticode is a good opensource alternative.
if you are concerned only about quality of code, then Sonar is a great tool and it is a way to go.
Though, I would recommend you to also look at the quality from a broader perspective. For example your customer would not care a lot about your code quality and instead would evaluate quality as number of bugs he encounters in your product releases. So in addition to code, you may analyse your defects, quality of your development process and probably many other aspects.
You may take a look at programeter, if you are interested in quality of the product as a whole, and not just the code quality (disclaimer: I am the co-founder at Programeter).
Since you are just starting out in that field simply go with sonar and re-evaluate in 1 year.
You don't indicate your platform. If you're an Eclipse shop, there's CodePro Analytix.
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I'm interested in information about changing ELMAH's UI. I know its possible, either through the ErrorLogPageFactory (not much info about it out there) or by rolling your own.
In short, I'm interested in the built-in facilities of ELMAH for skinning the report UI. Secondary is how to use ELMAH's API to roll your own UI (rather than the naive route where you write against sql or xml, depending on the storage provider your website uses currently).
Elmah has an ErrorLog.css file (inside the dll) that would be your source for skinning the report to your liking. I doubt it would be too hard to make that an external dependency. Further changes to the UI would likely require you messing with the source. It's good code, so that shouldn't be too hard.
The other item that I found interesting for pulling information from Elmah is that she (can I refer to software as an entity...) has an option for json output. The URL just tacks on a json element:
http://www.domain.com/elmah.axd/json?id=C8E40775-C215-4148-9D5E-6F865B4BCB9D