Re: database reporting
Andy Robinson <[email protected]>
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I just wonder if anyone actually WANTS to do really long grouped/banded database reports, or if that's just what the tools have encouraged? IMHO when things get long, you may be better to think about making a "book" with tables of contents, different presentations of information, and not everything in tables. In the past 12 years in business, I haven't met a customer who disagrees. At which point, ReportLab makes it all possible. - Andy On 3 June 2013 21:12, Gary Nutbeam <[email protected]> wrote: > You could try the report writing features of Dabo (which uses reportlab to > generate it's output), a desktop-centric open source database dev tool for > python. > > http://www.dabodev.com > > > On 06/03/2013 03:01 PM, Silke wrote: >> >> To be honest, I think there isn't any DB reporting tool written in Python >> comparable to the best commercial report design tools. >> >> To create just tabular listings, Reportlab's LongTable is fine (I should >> know, because I developed the patch). For languages with long words, you >> should use Wordaxe paragraphs with auto hyphenation inside the cells to >> avoid wasting space. However, a cell must not be longer than one page. For >> very long text, you could try to split it into paragraphs with less than 200 >> chars and use several table rows then. >> >> For more sophisticated reports, I recommend something like Eclipse BIRT - >> unfortunately, that's Java and not Python, but nobody's perfect. >> >> HTH >> Henning >> _______________________________________________ >> reportlab-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/reportlab-users >> > _______________________________________________ > reportlab-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/reportlab-users -- Andy Robinson Managing Director ReportLab Europe Ltd. Thornton House, Thornton Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 4NG, UK Tel +44-20-8405-6420 _______________________________________________ reportlab-users mailing list [email protected] http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/reportlab-users