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[Joël Grand-Guillaume <joel.grandguillaume@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all !


I'm really enthusiastic with all this new place to share our idea and make this project better !

I contribute to the list of the reporting system for OpenERP, and I completely agree we need more than one system.

OpenOffice is perfect (or will be perfect : I agree with both Raphaël & Sharoon suggestions) for simple report case, 
but when it became more complicated, then it's not enough. 
It become heavy to make the treatments before rendering the report. They also are quite slow,
Ok, not a huge trouble until you overpass the client delay :( ! I experienced it my-self with financial reporting which 
could be very long !!

We, at Camptocamp, develop our own engine based on ReportLab Library directly. You can find it into the module:

c2c_reporting_tools

This system is designed to print 3 kinds of reports really easily :

- Lists (with page break, page number, header splitting, etc..)
- OpenERP "tree" structure (with nice indentation and so)
- Gantt chart with different scale and colors (this last one break till Tiny remove the "remove parent node" function, we still need to fix it :(

It's clearly a reporting system for developer, which allow you to code your report with python code only :) ! 
You say, add column, add line and so...

Characteristics :

- Fast report coding, specially adapted for OpenERP type of object (list, tree, parent, child, etc...)
- Fast rendering
- Output pdf
- Only python code for report generation
- Easy to maintain (no need to look into both python and RML stuff)
- Depend on ReportLab

Regards,


Joël


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Joël Grand-Guillaume 
OpenERP Consultant
Business Solutions

Camptocamp SA
PSE A, CH-1015 Lausanne
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