Collaborative Work

[Thorsten Hohage]

On 2007-12-15, at 14:01, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

> On 15/12/07 2:11 PM, "Beatrix Willius" <bwillius at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Don't forget something else: reporting. In my day job with Opel/GM I
>> sometimes think that nowadays we do most software only to get reports
>> out.
>
> Nice statement  :-)


There may be some nice solutions to do reporting with a Valentina DB  
sometime in the future - hopefully!


BUT I must comment on reporting and this special client: I've a  
complete reporting engine integrated in my framework, where I use  
XHTML-style templates to define the reports and a XML-File for linking  
data and templates. After ALL these discussions, no one was able to  
define what reports they need. So from start there was no report at  
all, because nothing was requested, but this doesn't matter, reports  
are externals for me.

After almost everything was done, there was still no reports (don't  
see invoices, address labels, ... as reports) inside, but they was  
part of my initial estimate. I send an email around and pointing out  
that I'm going to be in the company in two weeks and willing to  
implement ALL reports they defined to do in this two days.

You guess what happened ;-) - I spend two days in the company drinking  
coffee, reading mails, polishing fingers, ... but did not define any  
report at all. And that is the current state about reports until now -  
don't ask me why.


For ALL other clients I was in contact with, this is very true,  
reports, reports and oh I forgot, reports ;-)


regards

Thorsten Hohage
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objectmanufactur.com - Hamburg,Germany