RE: [birt-dev] Bugzilla 173217 - BIRT Report DeliveryProposalandPatch Re

["Hongchang Lin" <hlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, report engine isn't the component should be responsible for deliver
report. 

However, if takes the report delivery as a BIRT application to look,
like report designer and report viewer (which both calls design and
report engine to generate and present report), I think it probably could
be a BIRT feature. Actually, now report viewer supports printing report
as PDF. User also could print, sent out or publish after viewing as
HTML, pdf, doc, etc. 

So, I think the issues needs to consider is whether providing new
delivery feature such as email, ftp, etc., and whether improving the
current delivery features in report viewer.

Thanks!
-Hongchang Lin

-----Original Message-----
From: birt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:birt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Wei Yan
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:01 AM
To: birt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [birt-dev] Bugzilla 173217 - BIRT Report
DeliveryProposalandPatch Review Request

Report engine should only focus on report generation and rending. 

The report delivery feature is part of report server which uses the
report engine to generate the report.

I think it is not in the BIRT domain.

Thanks.

-Wei Yan


-----Original Message-----
From: birt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:birt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Hongchang Lin
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:04 AM
To: Yip Ng; birt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [birt-dev] Bugzilla 173217 - BIRT Report Delivery
ProposalandPatch Review Request

I think it could be a good additional function for BIRT.

-Hongchang Lin

-----Original Message-----
From: birt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:birt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Yip Ng
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 2:17 AM
To: birt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [birt-dev] Bugzilla 173217 - BIRT Report Delivery Proposal
andPatch Review Request

Hi birt-dev:

I would like to propose and contribute a new BIRT
functionality in the area of report delivery to the
Eclipse BIRT project.  Report Delivery is a
fundamental
and integral part of reporting.  

Initial proposal is to provide a more extensible
solution for report delivery in BIRT. The solution
should provide some out-of-the-box delivery mechanisms
such as e-mail, ftp, etc. as well as providing the
flexibility for the BIRT developers to customize their
report delivery requirements by defining their
own extensions for report delivery. The custom report
delivery will be provided via Eclipse plug-in
extension point mechanism.

With the delivery extension defined and integrated to
BIRT, it would be relatively easy to provide other
custom report delivery mechanisms such as FTP,
printer, cache, fax, Web Portals, etc.

An initial implementation for the proposal and a mail
delivery extension is supplied with the attachments
along with the proposal document in Bugzilla 173217. 

The changes are based on the latest BIRT CVS HEAD
(v2.2).  Please refer to the proposal document for
further details.
 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=173217

I would appreciate it if someone would review the
proposal and the supplied implementation.

If the proposal is feasible, I would like to continue
improve the implementation and work on testing aspect
of this feature.  Thank you. 


Regards,
Yip Ng



 
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