Hi, Sylvian!

We used another approach to this problem and find solution which our customers use in production.

Customers wanted sophisticated excel reports from DeepSee. Thay alredy had hundreds of predefined reports in form of Excel.

What we do:

1. Transform this standard Excel reports into excel-xml(save Excel as xml) templates with XSLT variables inside.

2. Programmaticaly run reports in DeepSee, parse the result and perform XSLT transformation under excel-xml templates and data from DeepSee. You can use for this either %DeepSee.ResultSet or %DeepSee.REST.API or MDX2JSON.

3. Get the ready to use Excel reports with data from DeepSee in excel-xml form.

Here are some code examples, presentation and workthrough which are mostly in Russian (except COS).

Hope it helps.

Hi, Scott!

Look also at this approach for deployment. This UML Explorer tool is deployed by importing class package into Studio (not Atelier).

During class compilation it runs installation scripts which create database, namespace, web app, etc.

So for the client installation procedure is just one action: import package into Caché with Studio or Control Panel and client can start use it. They like it.