Creating user generated reports

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Published on 2010-06-14T17:10:31Z Indexed on 2010/06/14 17:12 UTC
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Hello Everyone,

I need users to create custom reports. These users do not know any technical skills like SQL. We currently have a custom database report design. So basically whatever the user does on the GUI the application will have to generate the appropriate SQL to generate the report structure.

Has anyone done this before? I know there are reporting solutions out there but we already have our own database tables for reporting. We already have a section where users can view reports displayed in HTML.

Like for example if user selects a "UserID" and "Accounts" fields from GUI, how would I know that my SQL has to join the USER and ACCOUNTS table?

I guess I'm just looking for some ideas to help me solve this problem.

Thanks.

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