Is iReport an enduser Tool?

[aubrey.offer]

Can end users use iReport if they don't know SQL, PL/SQL?

As I have been tasked to assess iReport as an enduser reporting tool.

I would like to know if compared to Oracle's Dicoverer if the user who is not a developer (ie does not do SQL etc) can select simply the columns they require without knowing the structure of the data.

 

Regards

 

Aubrey

 

[C-Box]

There is a nice query designer builtin in iReport... as I do many end-user schooling for generating reports against our erp-database the most tricky thing is the filtering and ordering and of course joining tables stuff.... this is quiet hard to teach if the user dosn't know at least what a primary or foreign key is.

The actual designing is drag&drop and what you see is what your get.... also creating groups and variables is quite simple (IMHO).

So we have many customers/users that create their own reports with it.

But I don't know Oracle discoverer... so I can't compare

just my two cents

regards

C-Box

[mdahlman]

Nope, iReport is not intended as an end user tool. It might work for some superusers, but in general it's much too complex for them.

Ad Hoc reporting in JasperReports Server is intended for end user reporting and analysis.

[aubrey.offer]

Thanks for your input, it is appreciated.

[aubrey.offer]

Thank you. Will look into this Ad Hoc Reporting.