I plan to develop a Report component at Joomla 2.5.6. I need a kind of ARI Data Tables to support my component, therefore I want to make sure the ARI Data Tables has features that I need.

FYI, the report component will have a flexibility to allow users to select which Database Tables or Views to show, then they will print or save the Data Table into a file later. Please refer to the attached screenshot for more detailed explanation.

The followings are features that I need for my report component:

1) There will be an initialized Data Table when my report component is firstly loaded. After users select which table to be shown, upon users click button "Generate Report", I need to a kind of "destroy" an initialized Data Table, then initialize a new Data Table based on user's selection.

2) Allow users to select which format to print the data table. The selection has at least 3 options: CSV, Excel, and PDF.

3) How many methods to giving data to ARI Data tables? i.e: DOM, JavaScript array / JSON, Ajax source, server-side procession, etc


Please kindly assist me on my queries above, then I can make a decision to purchase the ARI Data Tables. Thank you.

Hello,

"ARI Data Tables" shows data from a database based on "SELECT" SQL query which is defined in module settings. If you want to re-initialize table (use a new SQL query) which is created by the module, it requires to reload the page with the table. If you want to change SQL query dynamically, server side pagination will not work because the module gets SQL query from module settings when server side pagination is used.

Regards,
ARI Soft