What do I need to install Zucker reports on Sugar CE 5.5?

[anicolais]

Hi,
I have seen a lot of articles and everything regarding how to install zucker reports but nothing really completely gets me to actually having it work. Many articles talk about other things that need to be installed first like jasper reports and ireports or something. Sorry if I'm being dumb but I do not understand the process to get Zucker reports to work. What I need to know is what do i need to install before Zucker reports if anything? And then how to actually install Zucker reports. Any articles or help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Sugar 5.5 CE
SQL Server
Windows Vista

[datasponge]

There's a discussion of what to do to make 5.5 work on SugarForge in the Zucker Reports forum here.

That site also lists 5.0 as the latest supported release. I see lots of history for Zucker, but not much recent activity, so I'm not sure where the project stands. Anyone from Zucker have info on this?

Also, every time I try to get Zucker Reports working, some other priority comes up and I've found it too complicated to get it working without a lot of focused time and effort. I just started reading about Kinamu Reporter and it looks promising because it's much simpler, but only in beta. I hope to download it and try it in the next few days.

Phil

[ivit]

-Unpack the zip package

-change the manifest to include all 5.x versions:
'acceptable_sugar_versions' => array("regex_matches" => array("5.*")),

-In the follofing files change the rhs_table value has to be in plural, i.e. you have to add letter 's' at the end of ech of the table names.
ZuckerListingTemplate/vardefs.php
ZuckerQueryTemplate/vardefs.php
ZuckerReportTemplate/vardefs.php
ZuckerWordTemplate/vardefs.php
example:
'rhs_table'=> 'zucker_listingtemplate'
by
'rhs_table'=> 'zucker_listingtemplates'


- In file ZuckerListingTemplate/vardefs.php change the folowing:
'relationship' => 'zucker_reporttemplate_XXX',
with
'relationship' => 'zucker_listingtemplate_XXX',

-pack the zip again.