Re: [cgiapp] Report generation...

[Peter Leonard <suppressed>]

Tim,

In the past, I've done report-generation offline - usually triggered by a 
cron job, or something else.  Write it to a pre-determined location, and 
then if I'm using CGI::Application, it's soley for the purposes of either 
access control, or to add the new file in a list of downloadable options.

Reports tend to take a while to generate - you really don't want to 
generate than once.

	--pete


On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Tim Howell wrote:

> I'm working on an application that has a report generation mode that
> generates a report as an Excel spreadsheet that is then sent to the
> client.  I can think of several ways to do this, but the idea I'm
> currently toying with is having my CGI::App exec a separate script that
> generates the report.  I'm not sure yet if I will write the report to
> disk and then present the user with a link to that, have the CGI::App
> load it and send it to the user, or have the report returned directly to
> the CGI::App.
>
> What methods are you guys using?
>
> --TWH
>
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