Andrew Nurse

Off to Redmond again!

andrew@openarrow.com — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Many readers of my blog will remember that I was a Microsoft Intern last summer...

Playing with IE8: Reports Module as a WebSlice

andrew@openarrow.com — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT

In this post, I play around with the new IE 8 WebSlices feature and turn any Reports Module instance into an instant WebSlice!

Developing an RSS Data Source - Part III

andrew@openarrow.com — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Part 3 of a 4 part series on developing a Data Source in the Reports Module. This series focuses on developing a Data Source that retrieves data from an RSS Feed.

Developing an RSS Data Source - Part II

andrew@openarrow.com — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Part 2 of a 4 part series on developing a Data Source in the Reports Module. This series focuses on developing a Data Source that retrieves data from an RSS Feed.

Developing an RSS Data Source - Part I

andrew@openarrow.com — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Part 1 of a 4 part series on developing a Data Source in the Reports Module. This series focuses on developing a Data Source that retrieves data from an RSS Feed.

Reports Module v5.0 Released

andrew@openarrow.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Reports Module 5.0 has been released! Here are the new features/bug fixes in this release (you can also see the list on our RoadMap Page)

Reports Module v5.0 Released to Tracker

andrew@openarrow.com — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:40:01 GMT

After a few delays, version 5.0 of the Reports Module has been released to the Module Release Process. This means that it should be released shortly (though given the time of year, it may take a couple of weeks). I'll be posting some How-To screencasts walking through the new features (and some old ones too) in the next week or so. I'm also working on a full User's Guide to be released shortly.

Reports Module 5.0 Update – Data Sources part 2: Generic ADO.Net

andrew@openarrow.com — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:41:33 GMT

The main goal of the new Data Sources framework is to be able to support data from any number of varying sources. These sources may be standard relational Databases or they may be other data stores such as Active Directory, Excel, CRM Systems, etc. In order to be as flexible as possible, the Reports module includes a “Generic ADO.Net Data Source” which allows you to query any data source for which there is an ADO.Net Data Provider.

Reports Module 5.0 Update – Data Sources part 1: Microsoft SQL Server

andrew@openarrow.com — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:47:39 GMT

As promised, here is the first of my series focusing on the new data sources in the Reports module version 5.0. The Microsoft SQL Server Data Source allows host users to configure a report to retrieve data from ANY Microsoft SQL Server Database accessible from the web server.

Reports Module 5.0 Update – Data Sources Framework

andrew@openarrow.com — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:00:11 GMT

For the next version of the Reports Module, version 5.0 (which, confusingly, is only the second major release of the module), we are introducing a new Data Sources Framework. This framework is similar to the Visualizer Framework introduced in the 4.x line, but it works in the other direction. While Visualizers are responsible for drawing UI for a Report given its results and some settings, a Data Source is responsible for generating the report results based on its settings.