If you like Star Trek, you??™ll likely love this chapter as it??™s my way of paying homage to something that
I??™ve loved my whole life . . . of course, if you??™re not a Trekker or Trekkie, whichever term you prefer,
you??™re probably not a carbon-based life form from the planet Earth anyway. I do realize that not everyone
is a fan though, so I??™ll try and explain all the obscure references as best I can. That??™s not to say
there won??™t be some inside jokes that only fans will likely get, but hey, how can you be a programmer
if you??™re not a Star Trek fan anyway?!?
to view various reports, schedule reports, and maintain reports. If you??™ve ever used a product
like Crystal Info or Business Objects, you??™ll know what I??™m talking about. If you haven??™t, the
preceding description should give you the rough picture. Basically, it??™s a dashboard-type site,
most usually in an enterprise environment, where business reports are made available to
users as required.
So what exactly is our version, which we??™ll call RePortal, going to do? Here??™s the rundown
of our goals:
??? First, obviously, users should be able to create reports, run reports on demand, schedule
reports, and view the output of scheduled runs.
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