Wissance / ReportGeneratorWebGui

An ASP NET MVC 6 Web GUI (Net core) for easy reports generation using ReportGenerator

ReportGeneratorWebGui

1. Description

Web application for reports (data from stored procedure or view with parameters) generation using ReportGenerator library. Reports could be generated in following formats using template files:

• Excel
• Csv

To generate report we need just a 2 things:

• Execution config - .xml file that describes stored procedure / view and it parameters
• Template file - a .csv or .xlsx file

If you would like to add you own reports add them to appropriate subfolder in wwwroot/files

Key features are:

1. Web api that allow to call report generation from any client (POST {baseUrl}/ReportsManager/Generate)
2. Client GUI that allows to generate reports using built in GUI
3. Report could be executed using any database (Sql Server, MySql or Postgres) on any server that accessible from machine where ReportGeneratorWebGui is deployed

2. Build

Backend builds very simple, we don't need any specific actions Frontend build have one pecularity - manual copy webfonts from node_modules\font-awesome-5-css\webfonts\ to wwwroot\webfonts

To full frontend rebuild (if there were made significant changes):

• npm i
• gulp build

3. How to generate reports

Open browser with address: {baseUrl}/ReportsManager, where {baseUrl} is an address on which applcation was started

Ensure that you have database with data and/or stored procedures or views

1. Choose ExecutionConfig and Template file:

2. Set parameters otherwise they will be empty

3. Click OK. In previous View properly set:

• Data Source and Data source Type.
• Select database type
• Select output generation file type (CSV or Excel)
• Excel files positions: worksheet, start row and column (Excel numbers starts from 1)

4. Click Generate, receive .xlsx or .csv file with data