Spike - Problems with Jasper reports about avni-reporting

[vinayvenu]

Customization of the UI

• Logo and favicon.ico can be changed using a custom theme (easy to create).
• Login page can be changed quite a bit using custom theme
• Report templates can be used to style reports. We can consider creating a custom theme that we use for our reports

https://community.jaspersoft.com/documentation/tibco-jasperreports-server-administrator-guide/v790/overview-jasperreports-server
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL5NudtWaQ9l7lRpVT0he0gj3mPJ83xM4r&v=1HPdgtw2_1U&feature=youtu.be

[vinayvenu]

The reporting solution must mention Avni instead of Jasper Reports, so that there is more trust in the application. What level of whitelabeling is possible?

This is done. 

Current reports and graphs look ugly. How easy is it to style templates to reports that can make it look better?

Templates are possible, they can be developed later as required

Can we show goal lines on the graphs?

This is possible. Choose the graph in design mode, On the properties tab, choose chart -> Chart customizers -> Add. Add a Range interval marker, and set the goal line

Currently, every implementation has multiple folders show up. How can we change this and show just the list of reports (not the data source etc)

This is fixed

Is it possible to create a dashboard?

No. Unless we go to their paid plans.

Is there an ability to send notifications from Jasper Reports?

No. Notifications can be set up if we want to inform someone that a scheduled report is done. However, we cannot set up alerts like how we do in Metabase. 

Can we integrate Nivo charts to Jasper Reports?

Nivo charts is a react library that is built on top of d3.js. Although it is possible to create a custom visualization component (CVC) to use the library to create charts, I found it hard to do because CVC requires pure es5 code that can be used by requirejs, and I could not get rid of the => from all the libraries that are required for Nivo to work. 

Can we integrate with Cognito?

Jasper does not support OIDC or Oauth out of the box. The one way to do Cognito integration is by making this an external database integration, and build an id server that makes calls to Cognito on our behalf. This will mean the application will continue to use session tokens for authentication, and the service will verify the password with Cognito.