Kugar is a discontinued tool for generating business quality reports for

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. The reports can be viewed and printed. It includes a standalone

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and a KParts report viewer. The latter means that any

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application can embed the report viewing functionality and that reports can be viewed using the

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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

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. 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. theKompany released version 1.0 on 21 September 2000 which was based on

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and Qt 2.2.0. On 21 February 2001 Kugar was donated to KDE for inclusion into

. 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. Kugar remained part of KOffice up to version 1.6.3. Kugar was not ported to become part of KOffice 2.

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’s new Report Designer – introduced in KOffice 2.2 on 28 May 2010 – served as replacement for Kugar.

Features

*Report printing in

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. *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

External links

* Calligra Suite Free reporting software {{KDE-stub