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Michel Pelletier wrote I am wondering if Zope can/does generate web reports in the form of charts and graphs?

Anthony Baxter has written an SQL query builder and report generator:

http://www.interlink.com.au/anthony/dmc-0.1.tgz

This is an excellent uncharted (pun intended) land for Zope, I forsee lots of charting and plotting programs coming to light, for example, taking stock quotes from a feed and generating charts with a chart object... etc. Python makes things like this so easy.

I plan to break the graphing code out into a seperate product. The question becomes, what sort of data do people want to plot? In it's initial incarnation, it will be just the dmc's plotting code - this takes the result of an SQL Method, and determines what sort of graph to plot by doing some (fairly stupid) poking around the data (if there's a column matching '.*[Dd][Aa][Tt][Ee].*', then it's a date, so draw a line graph, that sort of thing...) what sort of thing do people want? A graphing object that's built up gradually? Something that gets data all in one hit? Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.