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[Kim-Anh Vo <catakim@xxxxxxxxx>]

hello,

I did try to create new report-tables... but when running (step 2) it's
stuck, see the previous screenshot ("Please wait..." message forever).
What's possibly the problem?

2011/3/1 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>

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>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Kim Anh,
>>
>> There have been some major changes/improvements to report tables in 2.1
>> snapshot (trunk) in the last few days and the old approach of linking jasper
>> reports to physical report tables in the database will no longer work. Lars
>> mentioned this briefly in a commit message last week and promised to get
>> back to us with more information on how to upgrade old reports to the new
>> 2.1 report table approach.
>>
>> Until Lars writes up the instructions here is what you can do to test how
>> the new approach works:
>> 1) Create a new report table
>> 2) Run the report tables and click on the Download Jasper design button to
>> download a template .jrxml file.
>> 3) Open the template in iReport (4.0 is recommended now) and make any
>> changes you like (preview will not work as there is no local data source)
>> 4) Back in DHIS2, create/update a standard report and upload the modified
>> .jrmxl file. Run the report to view or preview your changes.
>> 5) Continue work on the design in iRport and keep updating the standard
>> report (re-upload your local jrxml file) in DHIS 2 to preview your changes.
>>
>> Combined with pre-built data marts (scheduled batch job during the night)
>> this new approach is a major improvement to multi and concurrent user
>> environments on online servers.
>> We are looking into how we can make it easier for report designers to
>> preview their reports inside iReport, but for now you will have to follow
>> the steps outlined above. For some reason iReport does not seem to yet
>> support xml based data sources over the web (just local xml files).
>>
>>
> These instructions are very fine. Existing report tables will work, but
> note that there are new features like having data elements, indicators, data
> sets in the same table, sorting, limiting, none or all crosstab dimensions
> available so you might want to have a fresh look at it. Regarding existing
> report designs it is possible to get them to work by modifying the XML but
> it is probably a lot easier to create new ones, especially since you can
> start off with a template like devised above.
>
>


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Best regards,
Kim-Anh Vo