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Mifos BI File Structure

Mifos BI File Structure

Jan 04, 2011

This page is to document our findings and decisions on setting up reports folder structure for Mifos BI Suite.

Goals

  • Easy to follow structure for reports and files and associated with them

  • Easy for community members to get the latest reports and deploy them

  • Easy for Mifos team to deploy reports releases to the cloud

  • Similar structure in git to what we will officially release and deploy

  • Able to release reports frequently

Non-Goals

  • Automatic installer for Mifos Reports

Other

  • Mifos ships with "Standard Reports" - these are reports we will provide as part of releases and continue to provide support for

  • Reports others in the community provide are separate

  • Mifos Standard Reports will all use CDF (for the near future) to display parameters

Structure of reports folder

Our standard reports should be structured in the following way:

1) in Git:

- reports/

    - standardReports/

        - report1.html

        - report1.xcdf

        - ...

        - reportN.html

        - reportN.xcdf

        - prpts/

            - report1.prpt

            - ...

            - reportN.prpt

index.xml from prpts directory has 'visible' property set to false, so the above structure can be directly deployed to pentaho-solutions server:

2) on bi server:

- pentaho-solutions/

    - standardReports/

        - report1.html

        - report1.xcdf

        - ...

        - reportN.html

        - reportN.xcdf

        - prpts/

            - report1.prpt

            - ...

            - reportN.prpt

By using the above structure we only show CDF filters to the end users. Moreover, we can still show reports without CDF by putting them directly under standardReports directory.