Data. Vision Home. Introduction. Data. Vision is an Open Source reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports. Reports can be designed using a drag and drop GUI. They may be run, viewed. HTML, XML, PDF, Excel, La. Te. X2e. Doc. Book, or tab or comma delimited text files. The output files produced. La. Te. X2e and Doc. Book can in turn be used to produce PDF, text, HTML. Post. Script, and more. Data. Vision is written in Java and runs almost anywhere. It can generate. reports from databases or text data files. Any database with an available. JDBC driver should work Oracle, Postgre. SQL, My. SQL, Informix, hsqldb. Microsoft Access, Progress, and more. Columns read from text files can be. Report descriptions are stored as XML files. This means you can not only. Data. Vision GUI but you may also edit reports using your favorite. Data. Vision was developed by Jim Menard jimmio. The projects leader is now Frank. W. Zammetti fzlistsomnytex. The latest version of. Data. Vision can be found on the Data. Document-Properties.png' alt='Ruby Merge Csv Files Into One' title='Ruby Merge Csv Files Into One' />In only MY post I got 714 likes, 139 comments and an impressive 262 shares, hundreds of people randomly sending me friend requests, sending me messages on Twitter. Hmm, I am not sure if you can do that, you may need to get a bit more creative if you want to use sort rather than resorting to perl or ruby, for example, maybe all. Ruby Merge Csv Files' title='Ruby Merge Csv Files' />Ruby Merge Csv Files In ExcelVision Web page. New. Freshmeat. and on the Data. Vision mailing list. News. July 1. 3, 2. After an unexpected. Data. Vision version 1. This. release is the first to be made available as a single easy to install. Windows. exe file, as well as in the traditional tarball form. The. Windows installer was created using the very flexible open. NSIS installer. creation system. April 2. 1, 2. 00. Hot on the heels of. Thanks to those who. Please also test this release, so we can soon get to a real 1. April 1. 3, 2. 00. Version 1. 2. 0rc. Thanks to everyone that helped make this happen. Please do. test this release so we can soon get to a real 1. February 2. 9, 2. Jonathan Marsden. Data. Vision team as a developer. December 1. 2, 2. Version 1. 1. 0 is now. Thanks to everyone that helped get to this point June 1. Pete Williams of Seriosoft. Data. Vision on his blog. He says more are to follow. These tutorials are geared towards. Data. Vision. Thanks Pete February 9, 2. Frank W. Zammetti has published Reporting For The Web With. Data. Vision, an article that shows you how to design a simple report. Web application. Features. Here is a list of Data. Visions features, presented in a mind jarring. Drag and drop report builder. Runs anywhere Java runs Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, Solaris, and. Works with any database that has a JDBC driver Oracle, Postgre. SQL. My. SQL, Informix, hsqldb, Microsoft Access, DB2, and more. Report headers and footers, page headers and footers, group headers and. Report field formatting color, numeric and date format, italic, bold. Editable report wide default field format. Subreports. Visual table linker. Aggregates sum, min, max, count, average, stddev by group and at. Record sorting. Sub selects allowed within SQL WHERE clauses. Formulas, using any language supported by the Bean Scripting Framework BSF. The. default formula language shipped with Data. Vision is Ruby via JRuby. Record selection SQL WHERE clause for database data sources, BSF. Run time parameters asks the user for values when the report runs if. XML file. Run time variables again thanks to the BSF. A script run at the. User defined SELECT clause columns useful for calling stored. SQL functions. Hide columns and entire sections. Reports can read data from different data sources. Currently, data. sources are defined for databases and text data files comma separated. When reading text data files, translates date and numeric columns into. Java classes so they can be manipulated as such formatted. Run and view reports on screen. Print report from Data. Vision. Exports to HTML, XML, PDF, comma separated, tab separated, Doc. Book. La. Te. X. GUI translated into eleven languages. Report definitions stored as human readable XML. Open source, so you get all the code to play with and use. Data. Vision is embeddable within your own application. The download contains the Java source code, a jar file so you dont. Data. Vision, examples, and. Changes. Other than updating the version number, there are no changes. Data. Vision between 1. Here is a summary of the changes in Data. Vision version 1. Build the tarball tree under tmp not under. Avoids trashing working dir named datavision Merge first 3 lines of intro. HTML output validates. Updated Derby library derby. Updated sqlitejdbc driver to version v. Also used Pure Java version so the driver will. Windows. Set source and target parameters to 1. Ant javac tasks. This should allow resulting compiled bytecode to. Java runtimes from 1. Data. Vision now requires Java version 1. Install instructions edited to reflect new dvclasspath. Here is a summary of the changes in Data. Vision version 1. Updated COPYING file to reference ASL 2. Include Bundle Name and Numble Version attributes in. Generate the manifest automatically. Output Data. Vision version before the usage message. Generate datavisionversion. Allow Ruby version. Number. rb to deal with a version. Set version to 1. Removed u look and feel switch from code. Removed. liquidlnf. Reverted default look. Fixes bug 1. 92. 32. Cut and Paste on OS. X does not work. Allow column set retrieval in Dervy and SQLite again. Fixes. issue introduced by r. First. Added URLs to download locations for third party. Allow sorted reports to work again. Re enable use of the first column of every table, a fix to. FWZs fix for SQlite issue enumerating columns. Fix for Tracker Issue 1. Now. DV uses get. Identifier. Quote. String to decide which quote. Switched to modified. Jonathan. Marsden. Corrected mistakes in a few language files where it said CSS based XLS. CSS based HTML export option and layout engine. Also added that string to one file that was missing it. Addressed issue reported by Byron Hurder dealing with SQLite not showing. Also as part of this, added new sqliteexample. Id prefer it be, just so. Data. Vision is run. I. tried seem to work, so well live with the file being somewhere it. Bug 8. 65. 49. 1 was fixed. Check SVN commit messages on 1. Commit message is also a part of the bug ticket for reference. Applied patch 1. Marcel Jager who provided Dutch translations. Thank you Marcel Applied patch 1. David Bennett do address an issue when using. Java. Script as your formula language. Thanks David Added the Object. Source and related example code. This allows you to run. Array. List where each element is a row of. Array. Lists where each element is a column. This works very much like. Char. Sep. Source does, except that you define the data, as well as the. See the example for usage details. Documentation errata may be found on the Documentation page. This list of countries includes those from which I have received emails and. Data. Vision Users mailing list. It exists solely. I have an ego, and that ego likes to see how widely Data. Vision is. Afghanistan. Australia. Austria. Belgium. Brazil. Bulgaria. Canada. Colombia. China. Czech Republic. Denmark. Dominican Republic. Egypt. France. Germany. Greece. India. Indonesia. E-Sword Windows 7. Ireland. Italy. Latvia. Malaysia. Mexico. Netherlands. New Zealand. Pakistan. Panama. Paraguay. Philippines. Poland. Portugal. Romania. Russia. Singapore. Slovak Republic. South Africa. Spain. Sri Lanka. Sweden. Switzerland. Taiwan. Uganda. Ukraine. United Arab Emirates. United Kingdom. Uruguay. USAYugoslavia. Vietnam. 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