Building a reporting engine
Building a reporting engine
I'm trying to figure out the best way of building a reporting engine using datatables.
I already have a web application using several datatables at once, and it's working really well, but I now want to add a feature pulling a variety of reports out of our database, with the ability to add more reports as time goes on.
Each report would have a differing number of columns, with different data types across the columns.
I'd like to be able to select the report from a list or dropdown, then dynamically build the table.
Dynamically building a table is straight forward, but I'm not sure of the best approach to handling the datatables side of things. I'd really like one instance of datatables for the reporting engine, that I can dynamically change the number of columns and data types on. Is this feasible?
I already have a web application using several datatables at once, and it's working really well, but I now want to add a feature pulling a variety of reports out of our database, with the ability to add more reports as time goes on.
Each report would have a differing number of columns, with different data types across the columns.
I'd like to be able to select the report from a list or dropdown, then dynamically build the table.
Dynamically building a table is straight forward, but I'm not sure of the best approach to handling the datatables side of things. I'd really like one instance of datatables for the reporting engine, that I can dynamically change the number of columns and data types on. Is this feasible?
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