ayanova/devdocs/todo.txt

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 REPORTING
 
 Procedure:
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+	REQUIREMENTS
-	read notes in project including any related spec docs	
 		Look at existing reports in v7 and generalize them and the features provided that are used
 		pdf, email, print, download
 		print / download / email / export immediately as an option no only preview and then those other things
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 		logo field with choice of size to correspond to the logo route
 		graphs and charts that show in UI should be printable / KPI Metrics stuff
 		labels wtf?
+		bar codes, holy fuck this looks good: https://github.com/metafloor/bwip-js  used by jsreport too in sample
 		notification needs to be able to generate reports and send them
 		Schedule form reporting
 			keep in mind, but ultimately it's probably a dedicated schedule thing
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 	test harness UI so can quickly test out things via widget list	
+		if it's faster, just whip up some kind of standalone project for testing?
 
 	Once clear on needs, research solutions online
 		This case has a lot of old research in it:
 			https://rockfish.ayanova.com/default.htm#!/rfcaseEdit/3451
 		look at commercial ones just to steal ideas
 
+	POTENTIAL STRATEGIES
+		HTML to PDF generated at the server then downloaded or viewed
+		JSREPORT commercial tool seems to do this and if you look at their samples in their designer it gives clues as to how we could do it ourselves
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+			OPEN SOURCE TOO: https://github.com/jsreport
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+			Their example playground for designing their sample reports shows exactly how they do it, it's like I imagined, templated like mustache / vue exactly
+			probably rendered to pdf need to dig more and the samples show exactly the types of css and html features needed to do reporting
+			https://playground.jsreport.net/w/admin/dI2_fUqZ (for example this sample report shows   <div style="page-break-before: always;"></div> which is interesting)
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+			The examples are golden for me if I want to go this route, they showcase solutions to literally all the problems I recall Joyce mentioning.
+			Here is how they describe the overall concept: " The original concept based on javascript templating engines and pdf converters has been proven in time by more than 200 000 downloads."
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+	OPEN SOURCE TOOLS
+		JSREPORT it's fucking open source completely!!!
+			https://github.com/jsreport
+		I can just pore over it and get the gist of what I need
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+		Definitely something here but not sure if it's appropriate or not:
+		https://github.com/FastReports/FastReport
+			They have commercial versions, not clear what this open source one is specifically in relation to the rest but it puports to be free and work on .net core 
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+	COMMERCIAL REPORTING TOOLS FOR REFERENCE / IDEAS
+		Seems as though they render on the server then just transport somehow to the client 
+			maybe canvas, as an image, etc
+		https://www.telerik.com/blogs/using-telerik-reporting-in-net-core-applications
+			HTML, PDF and OpenXML-based renderings are supported on Linux/macOS.
+			uses GDI to draw to and requires a libgdiplus library for linux macos to replicate Windows method
+			Seems like it's not a step in the right direction as it's very Windows graphical in nature and they just try to throw a shim over it on linux
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+		JSREPORT
+			https://playground.jsreport.net/w/admin/dI2_fUqZ
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 todo: from reporting specs doc, not vetted, was written a while ago:
 	- All v7 reports ported to RAVEN
     - ALL Fields even the ones that don't show on the report but are available for adding to a report in the editor need to be available
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 It's all done in Photoshop. Just take screenshots, then transform, rotate, distort them to look flat. Then add some drop shadows for a 3d look.
 
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+Good day.  I have a pricing question.
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+I have a software company and am the sole developer and am looking to add reporting to my business software product I will be selling to companies as a product they can install themselves and also will be offering that software as a SAAS rental version I will be hosting for those that don't want to install it themselves.  
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+The project is an asp.net core webapi back end with a Vue html 5 based front end client.  My customers will need to be able to design / modify / view / export their own reports off the provided data sources using only an HTML 5 browser at the Client end.
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+I am investigating rolling my own reporting solution however if the price is viable I might go with a commercial solution such as yours to save time.
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+Users will need to be able to design reports off our provided data sources as well as print / view and export.  It needs to work with asp.net core Windows / Linux / Mac at the back end web api and any modern HTML 5 browser at the client end.
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+To be clear this would be used in a business software product I am selling directly to my customers who would be using the reporting feature to design / modify and print reports provided by my software for their business.  I would provide sample reports they can customize or use as is.
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+Do you provide licensing that supports this and how much will that cost for a single developer?
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+- John