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I have several different types of report's layouts/formats to print for Civicrm contacts. I know that, we can generate reports by 'Report' menu in Civicrm.
But i want some suggestion about how much it will be easy to generate reports using Drupal Views. Because here, we have an option to override the reports templates easily. Isn't ?
Please let me know if it will cause any error in future.
If you prefer a solution which is editable via a web GUI, then Drupal Views are a great flexible approach. We use them extensively. You may hit the occasional limitation (either a "Views-ism" or a lack of support for some minor feature) but that's rare. If you are comfortable with Views, you'll be right at home :)
If you prefer writing SQL and are comfortable with PHP, a CiviCRM Report is a solution which offers you a lot of customisation, and building extensions is much easier now with civix.
Absolutely. It's very common to use Drupal Views to display contacts' information, either to the public (as in a directory) or internally. You'll see CiviCRM contacts as a option when creating your view, and you can create relationships to contributions, memberships, etc. Modules that extend Views will help, too.
Read more about it at book.civicrm.org
