[Koha] [Koha-devel] Koha reports wiki

[Barton Chittenden]

I agree entirely about the duplication, I'm not a fan.

I think that someone had filled in the template with a real report; I
edited it and made it generic:

https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SQL_Reports_Library#SQL_Report_Template

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 2:19 PM, Cab Vinton <bibliwho at gmail.com> wrote:

> > If you click into those sections, You'll see that each query has been
> > replaced by a link to the respective query on the Holds, Patrons and
> > Circulation page -- this means that if people have links bookmarked,
> they'll
> > get people to a link to the right page, but the queries are no longer
> > duplicated -- we may want to change the page so that we use anchors
> rather
> > than headers so that the individual queries don't show up in the table of
> > contents on the main page.
>
> The new Holds/ Patrons/ Circ pages have a number of queries not on the
> main page, & until I moved them over, there were 20 or so queries on
> the main page that weren't on the HPC pages.
>
> In other words, it was a mess. I think it's a bad idea to continue to
> have 2 locations for the same queries. Actually, it seems rather
> pointless. The Note at the top of the main page asks folks to add new
> queries to the appropriate HPC page, but that clearly was not
> happening consistently. Bookmarks can & should be updated, & I think
> most users would prefer to have a single site to search.
>
> If the HPC sections are not deleted from the main page, within a few
> months there'll just be another mess, w/ queries on one page, but not
> the other. In addition, if the queries are on a dedicated page there's
> one fewer outline level to deal with.
>
> > I think that we should also put a "Works in version" row in the template.
> > That will help some just to show the marcxml -> metadata queries. (there
> was
> > also a change in 17.11 -- statistics now has a location field, this
> breaks
> > queries that use location but don't specify the table).
>
> Sounds good. Not sure where the template lives, however.
>
> Cab Vinton, Director
> Plaistow Public Library
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