GSOC ReportBuilder Weekly Update

[Adam Seskunas]

Last week I started working on using XFunctionAccess to and XFormulaParser
to parse and execute Formulas that can be used in a Report Document.

I'm happy to report that I've made good progress over the past week and now
have a working implementation. The patch I have locally on my computer
allows you to use Formulas in a Report Document and use database
information as input to a Formula. Unfortunately the patch is not ready to
be pushed to Gerrit as there are a couple of issues to resolve.

The first issue relates to how dates are written to the xml output file.
Currently the code in xmlExport doesn't do any time or date formatting as
that was handled by the Pentaho Report Engine and since adding a date or
timestamp to a Report Document is a common use case, I would like to get
this fixed in the next patch.

The second issue is that due to the way I changed the existing code to
remove the Pentaho Engine call, a stored Report won't open with my local
changes to xmlExport.cxx. Since the mid term GSOC evaluations are
approaching, I would like to have this fixed ASAP so that my latest patch
can be used with an .odb file that has lots of different example Reports in
it to show the progress that I've made.

Thats it for now, I should have a new patch by the begining of next that
will hopefully be able to give a good example of the progress that I've
made so far and also show some examples of the work that remains to be done.

Have a good week!
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