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3PyKota - Print Quota for CUPS
4
5(c) 2003-2004 Jerome Alet <alet@librelogiciel.com>
6This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
9(at your option) any later version.
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11This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
14GNU General Public License for more details.
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16You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
18Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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20====================================================================
21
22This directory contains some screenshots of direct access to PyKota's
23database through OpenOffice.org
24
25Since it works but I don't know OpenOffice enough to do something nice
26with it, I've added these screenshots and here's a small howto :
27
28        - Install and configure :
29       
30          godbcconfig
31          gtkodbcconfig0
32          iodbc
33          libiodbc2
34          odbc-postgresql
35          odbcinst1
36          unixodbc
37         
38        - Within gODBCConfig, add the PostgreSQL driver by
39          filling the Configure Driver form :
40         
41                   Name : PostgreSQL
42            Description : PostgreSQL
43                 Driver : /usr/lib/postgresql/psqlodbc.so
44                  Setup : /usr/lib/odbc/libodbcpsqlS.so
45              FileUsage : 1
46       
47          See gODBCConfig1.png
48         
49          Then create a system DSN (only the more important fields
50          are listed below) :
51         
52                   DSN : PyKota
53           Description : PostgreSQL access to PyKota
54                Driver : PostgreSQL
55              Database : pykota
56            Servername : your.postgresql.server.here
57              Username : pykotauser
58              Password : pykotauser's password
59                  Port : 5432
60                 
61          See gODBCConfig2.png
62         
63        - Then in OpenOffice.org add a new data source, selecting
64          ODBC in the Database Type field. By clicking on the URL
65          field's continuation dots, the PyKota DSN should appear.
66          Just select it and you're done.
67         
68          See ooo1.png
69         
70        - You can now create your own queries to the PyKota database,
71          and create any report you want.
72         
73          See ooo2.png
74         
75        - When you've got something nice, please contribute it back 
76          so we can learn from your experience.
77       
78WARNING :       
79
80        The above procedure doesn't work if you use the OpenLDAP backend
81        to store PyKota's datas. A similar procedure is probably possible
82        but last time I checked, the LDAP attributes accessible from
83        OpenOffice.org were limited to what one usually finds in
84        address books, unfortunately.
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