Here's the problem:
User runs a report which results in ~100 rows w/ sub-totals & totals etc rendered as a nice pretty & portable pdf. So far, so good. Now they want to remove a few lines (for various business reasons) from this particular run of the report. Can't efficiently be done in pdf.
Here's the work-around:
User get's the report output as MS-Excel and then "cleans" the data and the prints to pdf from Excel.
Here's my proposed solution:
2 "coordinated" reports. report 1 renders the 100 lines in an html table with checkboxes on each line. the user then checks the lines to be redacted and submits the form. a custom servlet stores the IDs of the lines to remove and then returns the results of report 2 which is the report we use now set up to ignore the redacted data.
I suppose on a subsequent run of report 1, it would automatically check lines which had been checked in a previous run.
Make sense? Possible? better way?
Thanks
