A recent client asked how we produce different type documents within in the Universe/Unidata database. There is no Rocket Software product that does that I am aware of. Using a Eclipse open-source product called BIRT with a Universe/Unidata ODA interface you can produce all of those types and more. So, am I right about no Rocket Software product that creates reports in different formats?
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How do you produce XLSX, PDF, DOCX, and HTML documents?
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+4- Rocketeer
There is nothing within UniVerse or UniData that will do this automatically. When I have needed to do this I have used python to do this as there are multiple free and easy to use add ins for python to do this. As python also has the ability to work with the U2 files it makes it an ideal match.
+1Doug,
I’ve seen a few instances of virtual printer devices that output to a PDF if that - both on Windows or Unix. Otherwise Python.
Regards
JJ
+1Hi Doug,
It all depends on the complexity of what you want to produce, how much control you want over it, and what skills you want to deploy. I’m going to do a quick pitch for mvPDF and mvSpread of course, those are the gold standard - (grin) - but for simple PDFs using Python with a library like fpdf will get you some way.
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