[reportlab-users] Seeking Example of Grouped Database Report

[Andy Robinson]

Rich Shepard wrote:

>    I've read Chapter 5 (Platypus) in the Users Guide and looked at the

> odyssey and other examples. I also understand the concepts and uses of page

> templates, styles, flowables, and paragraphs; still not certain where

> 'story' fits in the scheme of things. But, I would like to see an example of

> multi-table data used in a ReportLab output.

> 

>    Are such examples (as python and/or xml files) available from someone or

> some place?

> 


Sadly I'm not aware of any.  Strangely, of all the projects ReportLab 
has done in the last 6 years, hardly any have been classic grouped 
database reports.  There is no fundamental difficulty, but we do lack a 
clean example; if anyone wants to contribute one that would be great. 
One possibility is to use the video-store sample database which MySQL 
provides these days (also used by PythonReports below...)

There are a couple of projects addressing this which use our library and 
might help, although it may be more code than you want...

PythonReports adds a higher level specification language to define 
groups and nesting.  I've tried it and it works.
    http://pythonreports.sourceforge.net/


Dabo is a framework for building GUIs which includes a report designer 
on top of ReportLab:
   http://dabodev.com/documentation


Best Regards,


Andy Robinson
CEO/Chief Architect