Re: Opinions and experiences with ReportBro

Hi Nathan, thanks.

What we are looking for is something like that but with something more and,
especially, oriented to document production rather than report production.

We have been using for many years a combination of freemarker (see
https://freemarker.apache.org/) and xdocreport (see
https://github.com/opensagres/xdocreport) with excellent results.
The best part was the support of Libre Office to edit documents (templates)
even if it's not integrated in the browser it's acceptable since the
document's final quality was really good.
We recently had problems because xdocreport is not very up to date and some
documents have errors and it is not easy to correct the code at that
level, so we too have thought about using HTML and freemarker but I can't
find a wysiwyg editor that integrates freemarker syntax (and datasource)
with HTML5.

ReportBro has some nice futures (a javascript editor and a wide range of
options as datasource) but since I don't know the company I'm looking for
refrences.

Best regards
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Marco Facchinetti

Mr S.r.l.

Tel. 035 962885
Cel. 393 9620498

Skype: facchinettimarco


Il giorno mar 29 giu 2021 alle ore 19:58 Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
ha scritto:

Marco,

We output hundreds of reports to browsers from RPG programs by merging
program data (normally returned from DB I/O) with HTML templates, which
generates HTML output streams for browsers. We transform HTML streams to
PDF reports via an RPG API. This link shows an example of that.

http://rd.radile.com/rdweb/info2/ibmiui14.html

It appears that ReportBro does something similar, except using Python as
opposed to RPG.

Nathan.



On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 12:49 PM Marco Facchinetti <
marco.facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi, I am looking for a product to replace our current solution using
xdocreport and freemareker combination to produce mail merge style
documents (data and conditions).

The baseline is:
- a document editor to be integrated into the web management system
(javascript)
- produce documents in Pdf format (medium/high quality and complexity)

One of the possible products is ReportBro. Anyone have experiences with
their products?

Or alternatives to suggest?

TIA
--
Marco Facchinetti

Mr S.r.l.

Tel. 035 962885
Cel. 393 9620498

Skype: facchinettimarco
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