From: Sudheera R. F. <sud...@op...> - 2006-06-20 16:59:50
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Hi all, According to the discussion I had with Sanjeewa J., on the reporting module, it's actually going to be a set of Sahana libraries that will help the module developers when creating reports, displaying them and generating various types of outputs (xhtml, pdf, ODF etc..) of those reports for their modules. So the types of reports that's going to be generated are up to the module developers. After the development of the libraries, A reporting module will be created to aggregate all the public reports (only if the module developer make them available) from the modules so the users can find those on a single place. This is done by automatically picking up reports from the module directories (may be using reports.inc...) and listing them in the reporting module. Some suggestions, * It would be good to think about a caching mechanism because the report generation might be quite resource hungry and would not be a good idea to generate reports each time the server gets a request. * If we can get some report searching functionality, may be using some kind of meta data (set by the person who created the report), would also add to the value of the reporting module. Sudheera. On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 21:36 +0530, Sudheera R. Fernando wrote: > pls cc: to the sah...@li... when replying. > > thanks. > email message attachment, "Forwarded message - Re: [humanitarian-ict] > Requirement gathering for sahana reporting module" > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > From: pao...@gm... > > Reply-To: hum...@ya... > > To: hum...@ya... > > Subject: Re: [humanitarian-ict] Requirement gathering for sahana > > reporting module > > Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:30:45 +0700 > > > > > > Just a question - does reporting not implicitly mean exporting data, > > ie get it from the system into another format > > (so data tha can be viewed as opposed to data that can be imported > > perhaps)] > > just wondering > > > > pdm > > > > > > > > On 6/20/06, Pradeeper <pra...@op...> wrote: > > Hi Louiqa > > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 12:12, lo...@um... wrote: > > > Sanjeewa - hi. Data export - is this going to export > > aggregate data only > > > or individual items as well? > > > > This is a new module for Sahana to generate reports. It's > > nothing to do with > > data export. Module will produce reports in HTML, PDF and > > OOo Calc formats. > > > > It'll be great if humanitarian experts could give some > > guide, or explain what > > kind of requirement will be there for reporting in disaster > > situations. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Pradeeper > > -- > > Debian GNU/Linux 'Etch' kernel 2.6.14.1 > > > > The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he > > hides. > > -- Andre Malraux > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Paola Di Maio > > Systems Analyst > > www.content-wire.com |