Tech Talk Live feat. Alfresco Business Reporting – Replay

Yesterday Alfresco Business Reporting featured on Alfresco’s Tech Talk Live. Thank you all for watching live, participating, or enjoying the replay. And thanks Alfresco (Jeff Potts, Richard Esplin and Maxine Hamilton) for facilitating it all. I hope you all enjoyed it. Feedback is always welcome…

Since we used Google Hangout (instead of WebEx) the replay is available on all platforms, and I am able to embed

Admin panel for Alfresco Business Reporting

I just released a 0.8.0.1 version of the reporting module. It actually is a bug-fix, because it appeared there was an issue running the query based tables (thanks Vincenzo, Hunter and Greg for taking the effort of leaving feedback in this blog, or issuing a ticket @ Google Code!). In order to make the progress of harvesting more visible, this new version provides you with an admin page in Alfresco Share. The page shows you the list of tables, and the number of rows harvested per table.

How to create a Site based Pentaho report (with sub-report) for Alfresco Business Reporting

The recently released new version of Alfresco Business Reporting makes life easy for you as business users. Usually there is some SQL knowledge around to create some nice reports fulfilling your specific reporting needs. In this blog I will show how you can create  a report with content for a specific site only. The report will be stored back into that site. Your bonus is a subreports.

How to create a single Pentaho report with subreports for Alfresco Business Reporting

The recently released new version of Alfresco Business Reporting makes life easy for you as business users. Usually there is some SQL knowledge around to create some nice reports fulfilling your specific reporting needs. In this blog I will show how you can create  a report with subreports, and drive the report from within Alfresco.

How to create a parameterized Pentaho report for Alfresco Business Reporting

The recently released new version of Alfresco Business Reporting makes life easy for you as business users. Usually there is some SQL knowledge around to create some nice reports fulfilling your specific reporting needs. In this blog I will show how you can create  parameterized report, and drive the report from within Alfresco.

How to create a basic Pentaho report for Alfresco Business Reporting

The recently released new version of Alfresco Business Reporting makes life easy for you as business users. Usually there is some SQL knowledge around to create some nice reports fulfilling your specific reporting needs. And this blog is about how to create your first report using Pentaho Report Designer.

Alfresco Business Reporting – The out-of-the-box basics

The recently released new version of Alfresco Business Reporting makes life easy for you as business users. Usually there is some SQL knowledge around to create some nice reports fulfilling your specific reporting needs. In this blog I will show how to find your way around the basic reporting objects in the system once you installed the AMP (and the JAR)

Alfresco Business Reporting 0.8 released

Alfresco is a great ECM tool. However, it is not very powerful in facilitating reporting against it’s own content repository. Therefore I started the Alfresco Business Reporting project somewhere in 2011. Back then, the tool started as a kind of JavaScript API for reporting. The concepts are the same, but the usability and user-configurability have increased dramatically since then. The tool is still based on extracting metadata to an external SQL-based reporting database. The idea still is that:

• ‘The business’ should be able to run ‘reporting’, not external technical consultants or people with heavy weight Alfresco knowledge,
• Reporting is based on standard tooling (read: Pentaho)

Reporting against a collaboration environment – meaningful metrics

I have an interest in reporting against Alfresco for a while. But more in general, what do you want to know about your ECM system, or maybe a collaboration tool in general? I am preparing some sample reports for a new release of my Alfresco Business Reporting project/tool, and I am running into some questions about meaningful metrics. (I prefer to see standard Alfresco Share as a target to report against.)

Alfresco Business Reporting – Alive and Kicking

It has been a while since I published new code on the Alfresco Business Reporting project. Actually, I still have not. But lots of stuff has happened last 4 months, and some months before that. Partially because I needed the functionality for my customers (or for those testing this tool). And of course, because you were asking for it.