Kugar

Kugar

Original author(s)	Keith Davis
Developer(s)	KDE, theKompany
Initial release	September 21, 2000[1]
Stable release	1.6.3 / June 7, 2007[2]
Development status	Discontinued
Written in	C++ (Qt)
Operating system	Unix-like
Available in	Multilingual
Type	Report generator
License	GNU General Public License
Website	www.thekompany.com/projects/kugar/

Kugar is a discontinued tool for generating business quality reports for KOffice. The reports can be viewed and printed. It includes a standalone report viewer and a KPart report viewer. The latter means that any K Desktop Environment 3 application can embed the report viewing functionality and that reports can be viewed using the Konqueror browser.

Kugar works by merging application generated data with a template to produce the final report. Both the data and the template are specified using XML. This approach means that applications only need worry about generating the data itself. A template can be referenced via a URL which allows businesses to create a centrally managed template library.

History

Kugar was developed by theKompany as derivative from Metaphrast, originally written by Keith Davis at Mutiny Bay Software, beginning in August 1999.^[3][4][5] theKompany released version 1.0 on 21 September 2000^[1] which was based on K Desktop Environment 2 and Qt 2.2.0.^[6] On 21 February 2001 Kugar was donated to KDE for inclusion into KOffice.^[1] KOffice 1.1 – the last version based on K Desktop Environment 2 – was released as beta version on 24 April 2001 and already included Kugar as stable application.^[7] Kugar remained part of KOffice up to version 1.6.3.^[8][2] Kugar was not ported to become part of KOffice 2. Kexi’s new Report Designer – introduced in KOffice 2.2 on 28 May 2010^[9] – served as replacement for Kugar.^[10]

Features

• Report printing in PostScript.
• Database/data source neutral, data is supplied to the report engine in XML.
• Support for direct database access.
• Open report definition files, report layout is stored in XML.
• Full control of fonts, colors, text alignment and wrapping.
• Report Header/Footer.
• Page Header/Footer.
• Detail Section.
• Detail Header/Footer.
• Unlimited number of detail levels.
• Grand totals: count, sum, average, variance and standard deviation.
• Additional formatting (negative numbers, currency, commas for numbers and dates).

References

1. "Kugar Introduction". theKompany.com. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
2. "KOffice 1.6.3 Released | KDE.news". Dot.kde.org. 2007-06-13. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
3. http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2001032100420NWKE
4. "KOffice 1.1's Kugar README". Websvn.kde.org. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
5. "mreportobject.cpp". KDE. 1999-08-11. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
6. "Kugar Roadmap/FAQ". theKompany.com. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
7. "KOffice Suite Beta Released | KDE.news". Dot.kde.org. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
8. "KOffice 1.6 README". Websvn.kde.org. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
9. "Blog Archive » KOffice 2.2 Released". KOffice.org. 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
10. ""Microsoft Access for Linux" – Development". Kexi Project. Retrieved 2012-05-01.