Next Steps
Geraldo Reports is an ambitious project. We want to provide much more than we have done so far.
See below the main goals we have to do in the future (and maybe you could help
us to reach them early)
Engine API
- Table band - a band to make it easy to create lists just using tables instead
of detail band and lines. Table band must be an alternative to detail band
- Support canvas draw
Generators
- Generate in ODF formats (ODT and ODS)
- Generate in HTML
- Export/import structure to/from an XML format
Other features
- Charts generation in a easier way
- Cross-reference table
- Barcodes generation
- Maybe a better support to images
- Map/Reduce generating - split queryset, generate parts in parallel and combine them
after all - on one of both ways: local or distributed.
- Incremental/asynchronous generating - just take advantage of common part and update
the changed other part, specially useful when the order is datetime-based.
- Caching generated reports - (optionally) between render_pages and generate_pages
methods, make a hash key of rendered objects and find it on a cache (memcache or
file system), if does’t find, generate and store it.
- Drill down reports - a link from a report “A” to a report “B”