System for database reports generating

Tarassenko, Peter; Bukharova, M.S.

doi:10.1109/korus.2001.975063

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“…VisualTPL is capable of producing reports of virtually unlimited styles. This is an improvement over commercial tools such as Oracle Report Builder [8] and Microsoft Reporting Services [6], and other report generation approaches [1][5] [9], where only simple, regular, or fixed layouts are supported. We have implemented a visual environment, called VisualTPS, for VisualTPL.…”

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A Visual Programming Language for Data Transformation

Chen

Cheng

2008

International Symposium on Computer Science and Its Applications

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This paper proposes a visual programming language, called VisualTPL, to perform data transformation in report generation. In VisualTPL, data transformation is accomplished by writing graphical dataflow programs, which manipulate tables as first-class objects with a set of table operations. Based on VisualTPL, a visual programming environment, called VisualTPS, has been developed. As demonstrated with an example, data transformation programming is easy and intuitive in VisualTPS. Tables with sophisticated layouts can be created through top-down decomposition and incremental development.

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“…The report is generated by mapping nodes in the data model to the report model, which is specified through a set of transformation rules. The other document-driven approaches include [9] and [5]. In the latter, a programming by example (PBE) tool is developed.…”

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A Visual Programming Language for Data Transformation

Chen

Cheng

2008

International Symposium on Computer Science and Its Applications

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“…It is based on XML and XSL technologies and creation of a set of JSP files containing all the information required by the reports. Tarassenko [7] proposes a flexible report model aimed to produce complex reports, which could be created and modified easily without necessity for user to learn much about SQL queries. However, it targets to small enterprises, as stated in the paper, and limits the kinds of reports that it can generate.…”

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Interactive reporting architecture: A WYSIWYG approach to enterprise reporting

Yanar

Balcicek

2013

2013 the International Conference on Technological Advances in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (TAEECE)

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Business Reporting Solutions have widespread use in most enterprises. However, a great many of these solutions are composed of two parts: a design mode and a preview mode. Reports are designed by using abstract building blocks such as placeholders and data bands in design mode without the knowledge of how they look when rendered. This approach forces users to switch between design and preview modes constantly. Besides, end users generally have no or very limited customization options because design modes are so complicated that only power users can handle. Therefore we are presenting a "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) model in which a report can be designed and viewed at the same time. By providing a very familiar word-processor like interface, we enable end users to edit reports according to their custom needs.

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“…In particular, Tarassenko [3] proposed a reporter system that can produce sophisticated read-to-use reports. By using the reporter system, the development of a report is focusing at describing tables with column/rows, selecting and summarizing data, and formatting in the destination document.…”

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A Report Generator for Database and Web Applications

Chen

2012

IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst.

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SUMMARYReport generation is one of the most important tasks for database and e-commerce applications. Current report tools typically provide a set of predefined components that are used to specify report layout and format. However, available layout options are limited, and WYSIWYG formatting is not allowed. This paper proposes a four-phase report generation process to overcome these problems. The first phase retrieves source tables from the database. The second phase reorganizes the layout of the source tables by transferring the source tables into a set of new flat tables (in the first normal form). The third phase restructures the flat tables into a nested table (report) by specifying the report structure. The last phase formats the report with a WYSIWYG format editor supporting a number of formatting rules designed specifically for nested reports. Each phase of the proposed process supports visual programming, giving an easy-to-use user interface and allowing very flexible report layouts and formats. A visual end-user-programming tool, called TPS, is developed to demonstrate the proposed process and show that reports with sophisticated layouts can be created without writing low-level report generation programs.

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System for database reports generating

Cited by 8 publications

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A Visual Programming Language for Data Transformation

A Visual Programming Language for Data Transformation

Interactive reporting architecture: A WYSIWYG approach to enterprise reporting

A Report Generator for Database and Web Applications

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