We’ve been struggling with custom PDF reports for a while—either hardcoding templates or juggling serverless functions and libraries. It’s a real pain when clients want tweaks and we have to redeploy.
The visual editing aspect of CxReports looks intriguing. If I can give non-technical team members control over layouts and styling that'd be great.
How flexible is the design tool? Can it handle complex data visualizations like nested tables, charts, or custom fonts easily?
Yes, it's possible to define any kind of a page layout. Data tables and charts are also supported. You can get a sense what can be generated with CxReports from this document:
My team is currently running with jsreports for about a year or so now. The biggest problem that we are having right now is the absurd amount of dev time that we need to allocate in order to produce anything meaningful. I wonder what's the least amount of technical literacy needed to produce a report? From the text I assume that the goal is to have wider selection of people who can work with the tool.
Basic CSS knowledge is needed for setting up visual themes and basics of SQL is required for querying databases. After initial setup, most people can build reports with an hour or two of training.
We’ve been struggling with custom PDF reports for a while—either hardcoding templates or juggling serverless functions and libraries. It’s a real pain when clients want tweaks and we have to redeploy. The visual editing aspect of CxReports looks intriguing. If I can give non-technical team members control over layouts and styling that'd be great. How flexible is the design tool? Can it handle complex data visualizations like nested tables, charts, or custom fonts easily?
Yes, it's possible to define any kind of a page layout. Data tables and charts are also supported. You can get a sense what can be generated with CxReports from this document:
https://cx-reports.com/CxReports-Visual-Guide.pdf
My team is currently running with jsreports for about a year or so now. The biggest problem that we are having right now is the absurd amount of dev time that we need to allocate in order to produce anything meaningful. I wonder what's the least amount of technical literacy needed to produce a report? From the text I assume that the goal is to have wider selection of people who can work with the tool.
Basic CSS knowledge is needed for setting up visual themes and basics of SQL is required for querying databases. After initial setup, most people can build reports with an hour or two of training.
Self hosted?
Yes, you can easily install it using Docker.
https://docs.cx-reports.com/getting-started/docker/