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Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 10:20:37 -0700
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] The OFBiz Flexible Reports, a new and important feature
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archived-at: Sat, 20 May 2017 17:20:56 -0000

This is absolutely incredible! We had investigated BIRT but never implemente=
d it because it was too confusing for new uses. This will be a huge boost to=
 ofbiz adoption.=20

--P

> On May 20, 2017, at 6:42 AM, Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.roux@les7arts.com=
> wrote:
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> Hi dear OFBiz users,
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> Six months ago, I worked with the Nereides team to migrate and improve the=
ir Birt Report Builder and finally contribute it in OFBiz with a new name: t=
he OFBiz Flexible Reports.
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> This would not have been possible without the initial effort**of Nicolas M=
alin, Pierre Gaudin and Fran=C3=A7ois Wurmser for the design. It has been in=
itially implemented by Fran=C3=A7ois Wurmser as a Neogia addon on a R13.07 v=
ersion and ported by me to a custom OFBiz R13 version. And then with the hel=
p of Nicolas Malin to the OFBiz trunk with simple changes in the framework w=
here it was secured using OWASP security policies.
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> Because it was delivered in several steps, maybe some of you did not have a=
n opportunity to look at it and its documentation closely.
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> I believe it's a new important feature, so I decided to write a blog entry=
 where all about it will be grouped to ease the approach.
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> With the help of Sharan Foga and Pranay, I wrote this blog entry at https:=
//blogs.apache.org/ofbiz/entry/the-birt-flexible-reports-a
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> I hope you will find it useful
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> Regards
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> Jacques