> Is anybody using Jaspr reports for OTRS reporting?

> Jasper reports is an open source, Java based reporting

> toolset: http://jasperforge.org/sf/projects/jasperreports

I've heard of it... frankly, though, for reporting, and many simple apps, nothing beats CFML for productivity. I use the BlueDragon server for simple stuff like this.

> I just created my first (useless) report,

If you're looking for useless reports, I've got 'em by the truckload :-)

> The very useful feature would be that people can start contributing

> reports for other people to use,

A report repository would be awesome... but not everyone will want to use Jasper. So in addition to the product specific definition,

> Now I need to start looking at the otrs schema and build some real

> useful reports

Documenting the report/schema SQL used would be useful to post, too. That would permit easy migration to other reporting tools, and actually represents most of the development effort!

Mike Morris

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