Monday, October 22, 2012

Original GRI Source Uploaded

Before spending a fair proportion of my coding time working on the Javascript/Web-2/AJAX interface known as "GRI 2" I had the original as a rudimentary series of pages linked together with a bit of Perl.

It was fairly successful as far as it went; a basic web-based reporting portal, but didn't offer the glitz and interactivity that some seemed to crave. Hence I put it aside and worked on a different front-end whilst keeping the server side as compatible as possible (with extensions to facilitate the asynchronous nature of the requests driven by AJAX).

That is ongoing (not a small task). However I came to realise that the simplicity of the original code was a strength not to be over-looked. Yes the interface is basic; but the requirements for viewing the reporting application are very modest.

With that taken into account I've taken the code from my local virtual environments, and have begun the process of improving portability, adding some more features, and also improving GUI-based administration and posted to Google code.

The install guide has been published too - a user guide is in the works. The code is usable as it stands so if you need a web-based report portal with good security, distributed report management and low system requirements take a look!

http://code.google.com/p/old-generic-reporting-intranet/