[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Reports Module

[Jason Etheridge]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, George Tuttle <gtuttle at prlib.org> wrote:
> A repository of reports sounds good as long as it didn't end up a dumping
> ground of good templates mixed with bad, especially those bad templates that
> look good.

Right, I can imagine a rating system for this as well, and maybe a
means to "adopt" well-vetted reports into the stock version of
Evergreen.

> And speaking of populating copy buckets -- though I can import notepad files
> of barcodes into Evergreen, files larger than a 100 barcodes tend to result
> in "white screening" and Staff/Client slows to a crawl. We need a status
> conversion interface so we could set when missing items get converted to
> discard/weed and set schedules when certain statuses get converted
> automatically. Missing and Overdue Transits, especially. But old In Process
> and Damaged items too

The old "meat grinder" notion is getting some love in the form of code
called "query sets", so we will have server-side batch editing of
records that won't have to shuffle a lot of data to the client and
then back to the server.  At that point, we can make normal buckets
display with a paging interface to reduce use of bandwidth.  I think
we also need to really consider just sending the data that is being
displayed in a list, and if a new column is chosen from the column
picker, we re-ship the data rather than have it on hand.

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