Handling Parameter Passing in Dynamic Rendering of Enterprise Reports

Abstract

In enterprise reporting, we build a report template and reuse the template with different sets of data and parameters for rendering to different reports. While working for a product initiative towards catering to reporting solution space, we have designed and implemented a scheme for management of passing set of parameters to the report processing during rendering from same report template. For rendering a report with different set of parameters, we use an efficient algorithm to generate the ordered combination of parameters taken from a disjoint set of parameters. While the rendering is in progress, in case the process is abandoned suddenly, the process can restart the dynamic rendering process from the rest of the parameter tuples by using cached storage. In this paper, we discuss about the scenario, the algorithm, its computational complexity, implementation aspects and the benefits