![]() ![]() XSL-FO is an XML style language used to format XML data, and thus, is natural to pick up by those already familiar with XML/HTML. The technology the development team decided upon was Apache’s FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) Java library.Īpache FOP takes XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects) files as input and produces among other formats, PDF documents as output. With this in mind, the Clearvision development team set about finding a suitable PDF rendering technology that would both fit the clients specification needs and to allow multi-discipline development – such as the use of a front-end developer to mark-up the PDF document just like an HTML web page. Great for your CFO, but what about the rest of us? We want the swanky HTML report as an even swankier PDF download! It only allows initial output as an HTML web page embedded within the JIRA interface, with an additional option (if it is enabled for the report) to be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet. ![]() However, the current JIRA reports plugin module has one major drawback. It should be said that Atlassian JIRA is a great platform to extend (the best platform I’ve worked with) and the JIRA reports functionality is no exception. ![]() They also requested that PDF to have specific page formatting such as page breaks between sub headings not present in the generated HTML report displayed within JIRA. Retrospectives provide ongoing guidance for the team to keep things going well.Clearvision were approached by a client to write a custom Atlassian JIRA reporting plugin which would allow them generate a report from JIRA as a PDF. ProTip: Even if things are going well across the team, don't stop doing retrospectives.
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