Note: This community documentation page is an attempt to correct the info contained in the related projects block mentioned on the Forena Reports project page. That block gets generated automatically, using an automatic algorithm that seems to suffer issues as illustrated in #2014381 or #1292472: Do not list obsolete modules in the Related projects block.

Reasons for considering Forena contains some details about how forena complements Views in various ways.

Checkout the Forena Reports project page for details about:

  • Integrations with other modules, such as Views, BEAN, Feeds, Date, etc.
  • Integrations with external libraries such as dataTables, SVG Graph, etc.

More details and step-by-step instructions about these integrations is available in the reporting tutorials that come with forena and which can be accessed after installing forena. Checkout Sample Reports and Solutions for more details.

Some other modules also facilitate the creation of charts. Checkout the Comparison with other charting solutions for more details about them, and a comparison with forena.

This community documentation is probably not complete, feel free to extend/enhance where appropriate ...