Advice on developing report generation in SharePoint
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Hello. I'm currently working on incorporating an existing reporting engine into SharePoint WSS 3.0. I'm new to developing on SharePoint and pretty new to professional software development in general, and was hoping for advice on 1) features that will be useful to the user, and 2) UI design that will be most intuitive to existing SharePoint users. Right now, the user can take a report template created in MS Office, upload it to SharePoint, tie in the data, and output the report into a SharePoint library. You can also output the report into a web part that can then display it on a page. Is there anything else that would be useful to be included in a reporting package? The current UI is primarily web parts and editor parts. Would it be useful to expand to creating custom lists as well containing either templates or reports? Are there any cases (performance-wise or usability) where custom application pages may be a better fit? Any general comment are, of course, very welcome as well. Thanks, En-jay Hsu Windward Reports[^]