want to install report functionality in sugar

[akkimca]

HI...

i m using sugar 5.2 0f and i want to install report functionality in sugar..

i just read Jasper and zucker reports in previous post...

can anyone tell me what is difference between this two ???
and which is good to used in sugar and how to install ???

i m very confused because i didnt find anything which suggest me to used one of them

pls help me

thanks in advanced

[salesagility]

Install Zucker from SugarForge http://www.sugarforge.org/projects/zuckerreports/

and iReport from SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/projects/ireport/

Read the Zucker manual IN DETAIL

[roblaus]

oK, let's do this systematically: Sugar has a reporting engine but this is just available for Pro/Ent. So far so bad.

There are countless other reporting packages out there all of which can access the Sugar database easily. Jasper is just one of them. Caveat: These packages are not integrated with Sugar and can only be used if you have access to the reporting engine (mostly local).

Now there are some which have a reporting engine that can be used over the web and thus you can run reports without having installed anything on your machine (means a sysadmin creates the report and you just fill in some parameters like a from-to range). UNfortunately these options are not so many, very often pricy or badly documented.

Here is where Zucker comes into play: this is a Sugar module that has some reporting capabilities of its own (but pretty basic I'd say) plus it includes the reporting engine for jasper (not the report designer). That means you or somebody else can design a jasper report, upload the report definition to Sugar/Zucker and any Sugar user can then run this report without having anything installed locally.

This sounds nice and probably it is but as hinted further up: you should be reading the documentation carefully because Zucker can deliver quite unpredictable results during installation AND you should make yourself familiar with jasper.

[akkimca]

HI...........

thanks for ur quick reply... u solve my big problem....