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[Alan Lord <alanslists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/10/13 08:06, Phui Hock wrote:
> I've never used Pentaho Reports module, but it sure looks similar.
>
> Basically, you deploy a BIRT server on a Java web server (I use jetty),
> make available all the *.rptdesign files to the server and configure
> OpenERP such that call to generate *.birt report is redirected to the
> BIRT server. I could write a short post if you like to see how it works.

OK That sounds very similar then.

With this you run what seems like a fairly small peice of Pentaho code 
(we used Tomcat) and then you use the Pentaho Report Designer to develop 
your report templates.

I think the big part of the Pentaho tool from my experience is the 
OpenERP extension for the Report designer itself. This exposes "proper" 
OpenERP objects to the GUI designer so you don't need to decipher Python 
or SQL...

> I like Aeroo too, but running OO in headless mode on my VPS is seem to
> crash a little too often to be usable. I may have badly configured it,
> but I enjoy the drag & drop, WYSIWYG type of reporting tools.

Yeah - I know what you mean. We have one system (10.04 and OOo) that was 
rather unreliable like that - so we just restarted the headless OOo once 
per week via a cron job in the middle of the night ;-) Think it was a 
memory leak...

We haven't see this with Libre Office and 12.04 (so far at any rate).

Cheers

Al