Changes between Version 40 and Version 41 of BluePrint/Reporting

Timestamp:

01/08/12 21:40:14 (13 years ago)

Author:

Michael Howden

Comment:

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BluePrint/Reporting

@@ -33 +33 @@
 * All report types should be fully integrated with the [wiki:BluePrintSearch S3Search] module, to allow results to be filtered.
 * Provide documentation on how to integrate data from Sahana Eden with other reporting & visualisation tools & APIs
+* Provide some reports suitable for displaying inside popups on Map Polygons [wiki:BluePrintGISFeatureLayers]
 
 === Report Gallery ===
@@ -40 +41 @@
 
 
-
-
-e.g. for BluePrintImpact
-
-These can be implemented as an [wiki:S3XRC_ResourceReport S3XRC Custom method]
-
 == Use-Cases ==
 
@@ -51 +46 @@
 === Design Options ===
 
-==== Custom S3XRC Method ===
+==== Custom S3XRC Method ====
+Instructions: [wiki:S3XRC_ResourceReport S3XRC Resource Report][[BR]]
+
 The custom S3XRC would allow reporting for Sahana Eden resources. Vars could be be used to specify how the report is generated, eg:
 * What type of report to generate.
 * What fields would be represented on what graph axises.
 
-=== Chart Module ===
+==== Chart Module ====
 ''OLD - this section may now be redundant, but my provide some ideas''
 This module could provide the user with the ability to create and embed charts in Sahana Eden. The idea is to provide the user with the ability display any set of data; it need not be tied to a resource or may be a more complex combination of variables than provided in the Sahana Eden framework. The graphs could be in svg format allowing for interactivity. The files themselves could also be stand alone so that they could be easily exported and saved locally.
@@ -71 +68 @@
 || '''Variable''' || List || Pivot Tables || Bar Charts || Pie Charts || Scatter Charts || Maps || Timeline || Motion Chart ||
 ||  Data (list)  || n      ||  1                  ||  2           ||  1               ||  -                  || n (layers)        ||  1 (although a record can be represented  || 2 (Color & Size)   || 
-|| X Axis        ||       ||  x                 ||                  ||                 ||  x                    ||          ||               || x                     || 
+|| X Axis        ||       ||  x                 ||                  ||                 ||  x                    ||          ||               ||  x                    || 
 || Y Axis        ||       ||  x                 ||                  ||                 ||  x                    ||          ||               ||  x                    || 
 ||                   ||       ||                    ||                  ||                 ||                        ||          ||               ||                      || 
@@ -88 +85 @@
 * ReportLab
 
+=== Charts ===
 
 
 
+
+
+
+== Tools / Libraries / APIs ==
+
 === Charts ===
-For quick visualisations in the browser, we have included [http://www.jqplot.com jqPlot].
-
-We have included the [http://healthscapes.org Healthscapes] !SaVaGe library to easily output SVG graphs:
- * [wiki:DeveloperGuidelinesSVG]
- * We should have a recommended tested SVG plugin for Internet Explorer < 9
-  * http://www.savarese.com/software/svgplugin/ (not 64-bit)
-  * http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/ (Not maintained - e.g. no Windows 7 support)
-  * Background page: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/wiki/SVG_Plugin_for_IE
-
-T2 includes a basic barchart function:
+* Current the following chart tools are included in Sahana Eden: 
+ * [http://www.jqplot.com jqPlot].
+ * [http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/howto_faq.html#matplotlib-in-a-web-application-server Matplotlib]
+ * The [http://healthscapes.org Healthscapes] !SaVaGe library is included to easily output SVG graphs. See: [wiki:DeveloperGuidelinesSVG]
+  * Outputs SVG graphs
+  * We should have a recommended tested SVG plugin for Internet Explorer < 9
+   * http://www.savarese.com/software/svgplugin/ (not 64-bit)
+   * http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/ (Not maintained - e.g. no Windows 7 support)
+   * Background page: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/wiki/SVG_Plugin_for_IE
+* http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/02/6-jquery-chart-plugins-reviewed/
+ * Recommends [http://code.google.com/p/flot/ Flot]: "''From an interaction perspective, Flot by far will get you as close as possible to Flash graphing as you can get with jQuery.''"
+* [http://www.web2pyslices.com/main/slices/take_slice/12 Cairo] can generate nice charts from the back-end
+* T2 includes a basic barchart function:
 {{{
 def barchart(data,width=400,height=15,scale=None,
@@ -114 +120 @@
 }}}
 
- * [http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/howto_faq.html#matplotlib-in-a-web-application-server Matplotlib] can generate visualisations 
- * [http://www.web2pyslices.com/main/slices/take_slice/12 Cairo] can generate nice charts from the back-end
+=== Spreadsheets ===
+* Excel files are currently written using [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt xlwt]. 
+* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator PyExcelerator]
+* Docs on Python Excel libraries: http://www.python-excel.org/
+* Thread recommending xlwt: http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/375307e92df40ca8
+* [http://appyframework.org/pod.html Pod] to create Open Document Format
 
-=== Map ===
-We want to be able to provide reports suitable for displaying inside popups on Map Polygons:
- * [wiki:BluePrintGISFeatureLayers]
-
-=== PDF ===
-For more formal reports (which can also be retrieved via webservices using the PDF representation of the REST Controller), we currently use [http://reportlab.org ReportLab]. This also supports Graphics (via [http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ PIL])
-
-=== Spreadsheets ===
-Excel files are currently written using [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt xlwt]. 
-
-== References ==
-
-=== Other Available Tools ===
-=== PDF ===
-Other options:
- * http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/02/6-jquery-chart-plugins-reviewed/
-  * Recommends [http://code.google.com/p/flot/ Flot]: "''From an interaction perspective, Flot by far will get you as close as possible to Flash graphing as you can get with jQuery.''"
- * [http://www.xhtml2pdf.com Pisa] uses [http://reportlab.org ReportLab] to generate PDF from HTML
- * [http://code.google.com/p/jspdf jsPDF] uses pure !JavaScript to create PDFs
- * [http://geraldo.sourceforge.net Geraldo] builds on !ReportLab, and we used to use this, but no longer
- * Use S3XRC & hence XSLT to generate XML-FO which can be converted to PDF
-  * http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
-  * http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zopyx.convert/
-  * [http://osdir.com/ml/python.reportlab.user/2003-10/msg00206.html Recommend ReportLab over FOP]
-
-==== Spreadsheets ====
- * [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator PyExcelerator]
- * Docs on Python Excel libraries: http://www.python-excel.org/
- * Thread recommending xlwt: http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/375307e92df40ca8
- * [http://appyframework.org/pod.html Pod] to create Open Document Format
-
-==== Flash ====
+=== Flash ===
 Could be something to use Flash? (although best-avoided, if possible, to minimise client support)
  * PyAMF: http://pyamf.org
@@ -157 +136 @@
   * from Python: http://code.google.com/p/open-flash-chart-python/
 
+=== Other ===
+
+
+== References ==
 === Sahana Phase 2 ===
 http://wiki.sahanafoundation.org/phase2/doku.php/doc:reports:english