[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] EvergreenIntConf 2010 - Reports round-table

[Anoop Atre]

Apologies for being some what last minute. These are some reports
related ideas/questions/wishlist which were compiled from the mailing list.

Please look through and mail back if you would like to add more points
to the discussion during the reports round-table. If you can't make it
this year to the conference send us your ideas, requests, solutions,
etc. we plan to do a write up and post it on the website. Here is the
example list of base reports that George Tuttle came up with as a
starting point [
http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/2010-March/002589.html
]. We will discuss this so if you think other canned reports (academic
library needs?) need to be included (or his reports need to be modified)
mail back or make a note to bring it up at the discussion.

Discussion Points:

 - Sharing reports/repository for community. Rating good reports,
comments about reports, etc. similar to Firefox extensions.

 - Create canned reports - what reports should be canned? Generic list?

 - Community process to decide which templates to add into base install.

 - Pre-scheduled reports that run automatically and where the end-user
merely accesses the data, like the circulation reports for individual
months. In this type of report, the results are canned and can't be
altered(?)

 - Documentation on Data Sources for creating reports.

 - View SQL generated by report builder and an option to paste & use SQL
into the reporter.

 - Show report title, date and description on top of output so it can be
just printed.

 - Editing reports without creating a clone.

 - Show the settings entered when scheduling a report (the exact date
ranges, circ modifiers, etc.) that were entered when creating a report -
yes, we can put that in the description field, but people forget.

 - Long numeric barcodes are currently displayed in scientific notation
which needs to be fixed.

 - Bookmark regularly used templates.

 - Right click option to reduce number of clicks (applies across the client)

 - UI for exporting/importing report templates across Evergreen
installations (and have it catch whether a report depends on a reporter
extension which may not exist in the importing installation).  Later, it
may even be desirable to have the UI tap directly into a community
repository of such reports.

 - See reports be able to directly populate copy and/or record buckets
(going in the other direction is possible now, but could probably be
made easier).

 - Configure a run-time limit for reports (for example, if a report runs
for over an hour, automatically kill it).

 - Sponsoring/Co-sponsoring development

 - Plan a roadmap?

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Anoop Atre
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