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by mstijak 833 days ago
Congratulations on the launch — it looks fantastic! My company is also developing a similar product. We've chosen to create a visual report designer that enables end-users (non-developers) to create and tweak PDF reports, and integrate with the existing IT infrastructure via the API. Our experience is that users want changes in reports very often and that it's best to allow them do it on their own.

https://www.cx-reports.com

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Really like your approach! We tried to keep things tied to code as much as possible rather than dealing with complex interfaces between changing inputs and outputs. Most legal and tech teams we talked to pointed to the fact that CI/CD would quickly become unbearable when decoupling documents and code implementation. What is your approach on that?
We offer comprehensive import/export functionality, ensuring seamless transfer of reports between environments. Moreover, workspaces allow you to segregate test and production environments or create unique environments for each client, allowing easy report customization. While reports are simply JSON files, which could theoretically be stored on the file system and checked in, doing so would hurt the flexibility we're trying to achieve.