Reporting Tools

• eRe: Elein's Reporting Engine
• ReRun: An example PHP Web application to maintain a report registry schema and to run dynamic reports.

Status

• eRe and ReRun are available by request.
• Documentation for eRe is available. The documentation includes examples.
• Review the System Requirements for eRe.
• ReRun Demonstration version is dependent on system configuration.

eRe

eRe is a perl based report engine. It takes an XML-like/HTML document which specifies the report query in SQL and the report format in HTML. Using this template it produces an HTML page consisting of reports.

• Full featured HTML can generate well designed reports.
• Arguments and Variables are substituted within the report at runtime.
• Multiple queries as well as multiple breaks for each query can be run in the same report.
• Parallel CSV (comma separated value) files can be generated for the report queries in order for people to upload the data into spreadsheets.
• Database connectivity with PostgreSQL is implemented using Pg. A more generalized interface to other databases (DBI) may be possible if there is demand.

ReRun

ReRun is an example application which runs reports dynamically from the web. It is based on a report registry database schema. The ReRun application enables updating the report registry and running the reports dynamically. It is meant only as a template for writing your own integrated report runner and as a way to maintain your report registry.