Associating Saved Reports and Preferences with Data File.

[Derek Atkins]

"David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:

> In an ideal world, the report specifications would somehow be a *part* of the
> datafile. That, of course, would be problematic from the
> backward-compatibility perspective, not to mention creating appropriate
> structures in the file formats (one in XML and one in the SQL files) to hold
> them.

Yes, this would be the "ideal" way, but we would need to define a new
core type "report" that could be stored in the data file.  Perhaps it
could be just a blob that gets stored?  But doing this would be a major
shift from the current method.  I don't know if it would work, or not.

It might've been an interesting GSoC project.  ;)

-derek
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