Re: Report API and Catalog

["Aaron Bartell" <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Those are the ad-hoc features that I've planned so far, anyway.

Nice!  That's exactly what I am talking about!

I wonder what the i world would be like if there were as many RPG developers
thinking out of the box, like you have here, similar in number to the
Java/PHP camp.  Kinda leads me to my next question to the group as a whole.


Does RPG make a good "plumbing" or "framework base" type language?  This is
where Java with all it's OO complexities sometimes excels, but then suffers
as a business logic language (a space I get the feeling EGL has the
potential to fill, though the jury is still out on that).

Thoughts?
Aaron Bartell

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I appreciate your input, Aaron.  This is still a work in process.  Did
> you notice the tab labeled "Parameters" on the Work With Reports screen?
> I'm just starting to implement that.
>
> I envision a programmer adding a report definition record for every
> report program written.  And if the report program is able to receive
> parameters then the programmer could define them (data type, data
> length, prompts, etc.) using the Parameters tab.  And create a generic
> report launcher to prompt users for parameters - before submitting the
> job.
>
> Those are the ad-hoc features that I've planned so far, anyway.
>
> Nathan M. Andelin
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at  5:43 AM, Aaron Bartell wrote:
>
> > The one thing I didn't understand is how input data was mapped to the
> > various programs (in potentially a dynamic fashion).  So for instance
> > let's
> > say a HighSchool teacher wanted a listing of all students with a grade
> > A
> > average or better for the honor roll, she would want to enter a date
> > range,
> > maybe a class level (freshman, sophomore, etc), and the grade level to
> > include (i.e. A and above).
> >
> > What I have found in open source report tooling is that the power of
> > the
> > tool is it's ability to have reports built by a power user that have
> > dynamic-ness built in (i.e. criteria fields).
> >
> > Aaron Bartell
> > http://mowyourlawn.com
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