Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of TracReports


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    1717  ''This will make the query module the default handler for the “View Tickets” navigation item. We encourage you to try this configuration and report back what kind of features of reports you are missing, if any.''
    1818
     19
    1920A report consists of these basic parts:
    20  * '''ID''' -- Unique (sequential) identifier
    21  * '''Title'''  -- Descriptive title
    22  * '''Description'''  -- A brief description of the report, in WikiFormatting text.
    23  * '''Report Body''' -- List of results from report query, formatted according to the methods described below.
    24  * '''Footer''' -- Links to alternative download formats for this report.
     21 * '''ID''' Unique (sequential) identifier
     22 * '''Title''' Descriptive title
     23 * '''Description''' A brief description of the report, in WikiFormatting text.
     24 * '''Report Body''' List of results from report query, formatted according to the methods described below.
     25 * '''Footer''' Links to alternative download formats for this report.
    2526
    2627== Changing Sort Order ==
     
    2930If a column header is a hyperlink (red), click the column you would like to sort by. Clicking the same header again reverses the order.
    3031
     32== Changing Report Numbering ==
     33There may be instances where you need to change the ID of the report, perhaps to organize the reports better. At present this requires changes to the trac database. The ''report'' table has the following schema ''(since 0.10)'':
     34 * id integer PRIMARY KEY
     35 * author text
     36 * title text
     37 * query text
     38 * description text
     39Changing the ID changes the shown order and number in the ''Available Reports'' list and the report's perma-link. This is done by running something like:
     40{{{
     41update report set id=5 where id=3;
     42}}}
     43Keep in mind that the integrity has to be maintained (i.e., ID has to be unique, and you don't want to exceed the max, since that's managed by SQLite someplace).
     44
     45You may also need to update or remove the report number stored in the report or query.
     46
     47== Navigating Tickets ==
     48Clicking on one of the report results will take you to that ticket. You can navigate through the results by clicking the ''Next Ticket'' or ''Previous Ticket'' links just below the main menu bar, or click the ''Back to Report'' link to return to the report page.
     49
     50You can safely edit any of the tickets and continue to navigate through the results using the ''!Next/Previous/Back to Report'' links after saving your results, but when you return to the report, there will be no hint about what has changed, as would happen if you were navigating a list of tickets obtained from a query (see TracQuery#NavigatingTickets). ''(since 0.11)''
    3151
    3252== Alternative Download Formats ==
     
    3757=== Comma-delimited - CSV (Comma Separated Values) ===
    3858Export the report as plain text, each row on its own line, columns separated by a single comma (',').
    39 '''Note:''' Carriage returns, line feeds, and commas are stripped from column data to preserve the CSV structure.
     59'''Note:''' The output is fully escaped so carriage returns, line feeds, and commas will be preserved in the output.
    4060
    4161=== Tab-delimited ===
     
    5373A report is basically a single named SQL query, executed and presented by
    5474Trac.  Reports can be viewed and created from a custom SQL expression directly
    55 in from the web interface.
     75in the web interface.
    5676
    5777Typically, a report consists of a SELECT-expression from the 'ticket' table,
     
    6181The ''ticket'' table has the following columns:
    6282 * id
     83 * type
    6384 * time
    6485 * changetime
     
    7596 * summary
    7697 * description
     98 * keywords
    7799
    78100See TracTickets for a detailed description of the column fields.
    79101
    80 '''all active tickets, sorted by priority and time'''
    81 
    82 '''Example:''' ''All active tickets, sorted by priority and time''
     102Example: '''All active tickets, sorted by priority and time'''
    83103{{{
    84104SELECT id AS ticket, status, severity, priority, owner,
    85        time as created, summary FROM ticket
     105       time AS created, summary FROM ticket
    86106  WHERE status IN ('new', 'assigned', 'reopened')
    87107  ORDER BY priority, time
    88108}}}
    89109
    90 
    91 ----
    92 
     110---
    93111
    94112== Advanced Reports: Dynamic Variables ==
     
    101119Example:
    102120{{{
    103 SELECT id AS ticket,summary FROM ticket WHERE priority='$PRIORITY'
    104 }}}
    105 
    106 To assign a value to $PRIORITY when viewing the report, you must define it as an argument in the report URL, leaving out the the leading '$'.
     121SELECT id AS ticket,summary FROM ticket WHERE priority=$PRIORITY
     122}}}
     123
     124To assign a value to $PRIORITY when viewing the report, you must define it as an argument in the report URL, leaving out the leading '$'.
    107125
    108126Example:
    109127{{{
    110  http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/reports/14?PRIORITY=high
     128 http://trac.edgewall.org/reports/14?PRIORITY=high
    111129}}}
    112130
     
    115133Example:
    116134{{{
    117  http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/reports/14?PRIORITY=high&SEVERITY=critical
    118 }}}
    119 
    120 
    121 === Special/Constant Variables ===
    122 There is one ''magic'' dynamic variable to allow practical reports, its value automatically set without having to change the URL.
    123 
    124  * $USER -- Username of logged in user.
     135 http://trac.edgewall.org/reports/14?PRIORITY=high&SEVERITY=critical
     136}}}
     137
     138
     139=== !Special/Constant Variables ===
     140There is one dynamic variable whose value is set automatically (the URL does not have to be changed) to allow practical reports.
     141
     142 * $USER Username of logged in user.
    125143
    126144Example (''List all tickets assigned to me''):
    127145{{{
    128 SELECT id AS ticket,summary FROM ticket WHERE owner='$USER'
     146SELECT id AS ticket,summary FROM ticket WHERE owner=$USER
    129147}}}
    130148
     
    144162
    145163=== Automatically formatted columns ===
    146  * '''ticket''' -- Ticket ID number. Becomes a hyperlink to that ticket.
    147  * '''created, modified, date, time''' -- Format cell as a date and/or time.
    148 
    149  * '''description''' -- Ticket description field, parsed through the wiki engine.
     164 * '''ticket''' — Ticket ID number. Becomes a hyperlink to that ticket.
     165 * '''id''' — same as '''ticket''' above when '''realm''' is not set
     166 * '''realm''' — together with '''id''', can be used to create links to other resources than tickets (e.g. a realm of ''wiki'' and an ''id'' to a page name will create a link to that wiki page)
     167 * '''created, modified, date, time''' — Format cell as a date and/or time.
     168 * '''description''' — Ticket description field, parsed through the wiki engine.
    150169
    151170'''Example:'''
    152171{{{
    153 SELECT id as ticket, created, status, summary FROM ticket
    154 }}}
     172SELECT id AS ticket, created, status, summary FROM ticket
     173}}}
     174
     175Those columns can also be defined but marked as hidden, see [#column-syntax below].
     176
     177See trac:wiki/CookBook/Configuration/Reports for some example of creating reports for realms other than ''ticket''.
    155178
    156179=== Custom formatting columns ===
     
    158181assumed to be ''formatting hints'', affecting the appearance of the row.
    159182 
    160  * '''`__group__`''' -- Group results based on values in this column. Each group will have its own header and table.
    161  * '''`__color__`''' -- Should be a numeric value ranging from 1 to 5 to select a pre-defined row color. Typically used to color rows by issue priority.
    162  * '''`__style__`''' -- A custom CSS style expression to use for the current row.
    163 
    164 '''Example:''' ''List active tickets, grouped by milestone, colored by priority''
     183 * '''`__group__`''' — Group results based on values in this column. Each group will have its own header and table.
     184 * '''`__grouplink__`''' — Make the header of each group a link to the specified URL. The URL is taken from the first row of each group.
     185 * '''`__color__`''' — Should be a numeric value ranging from 1 to 5 to select a pre-defined row color. Typically used to color rows by issue priority.
     186{{{
     187#!html
     188<div style="margin-left:7.5em">Defaults:
     189<span style="border: none; color: #333; background: transparent;  font-size: 85%; background: #fdc; border-color: #e88; color: #a22">Color 1</span>
     190<span style="border: none; color: #333; background: transparent;  font-size: 85%; background: #ffb; border-color: #eea; color: #880">Color 2</span>
     191<span style="border: none; color: #333; background: transparent;  font-size: 85%; background: #fbfbfb; border-color: #ddd; color: #444">Color 3</span>
     192<span style="border: none; color: #333; background: transparent; font-size: 85%; background: #e7ffff; border-color: #cee; color: #099">Color 4</span>
     193<span style="border: none; color: #333; background: transparent;  font-size: 85%; background: #e7eeff; border-color: #cde; color: #469">Color 5</span>
     194</div>
     195}}}
     196 * '''`__style__`''' — A custom CSS style expression to use for the current row.
     197
     198'''Example:''' ''List active tickets, grouped by milestone, group header linked to milestone page, colored by priority''
    165199{{{
    166200SELECT p.value AS __color__,
    167201     t.milestone AS __group__,
     202     '../milestone/' || t.milestone AS __grouplink__,
    168203     (CASE owner WHEN 'daniel' THEN 'font-weight: bold; background: red;' ELSE '' END) AS __style__,
    169204       t.id AS ticket, summary
     
    177212numeric representation from the ''enum'' table.
    178213
    179 === Changing layout of report rows ===
     214=== Changing layout of report rows === #column-syntax
    180215By default, all columns on each row are display on a single row in the HTML
    181216report, possibly formatted according to the descriptions above. However, it's
    182217also possible to create multi-line report entries.
    183218
    184  * '''`column_`''' -- ''Break row after this''. By appending an underscore ('_') to the column name, the remaining columns will be be continued on a second line.
    185 
    186  * '''`_column_`''' -- ''Full row''. By adding an underscore ('_') both at the beginning and the end of a column name, the data will be shown on a separate row.
    187 
    188  * '''`_column`'''  --  ''Hide data''. Prepending an underscore ('_') to a column name instructs Trac to hide the contents from the HTML output. This is useful for information to be visible only if downloaded in other formats (like CSV or RSS/XML).
     219 * '''`column_`''' — ''Break row after this''. By appending an underscore ('_') to the column name, the remaining columns will be continued on a second line.
     220
     221 * '''`_column_`''' — ''Full row''. By adding an underscore ('_') both at the beginning and the end of a column name, the data will be shown on a separate row.
     222
     223 * '''`_column`''' — ''Hide data''. Prepending an underscore ('_') to a column name instructs Trac to hide the contents from the HTML output. This is useful for information to be visible only if downloaded in other formats (like CSV or RSS/XML).
     224   This can be used to hide any kind of column, even important ones required for identifying the resource, e.g. `id as _id` will hide the '''Id''' column but the link to the ticket will be present.
    189225
    190226'''Example:''' ''List active tickets, grouped by milestone, colored by priority, with  description and multi-line layout''
     
    209245=== Reporting on custom fields ===
    210246
    211 If you have added custom fields to your tickets (experimental feature in v0.8, see TracTicketsCustomFields), you can write a SQL query to cover them. You'll need to make a join on the ticket_custom table, but this isn't especially easy.
    212 
    213 If you have tickets in the database ''before'' you declare the extra fields in trac.ini, there will be no associated data in the ticket_custom table. To get around this, use SQL's "LEFT OUTER JOIN" clauses. See TracIniReportCustomFieldSample for some examples.
     247If you have added custom fields to your tickets (a feature since v0.8, see TracTicketsCustomFields), you can write a SQL query to cover them. You'll need to make a join on the ticket_custom table, but this isn't especially easy.
     248
     249If you have tickets in the database ''before'' you declare the extra fields in trac.ini, there will be no associated data in the ticket_custom table. To get around this, use SQL's "LEFT OUTER JOIN" clauses. See [trac:TracIniReportCustomFieldSample TracIniReportCustomFieldSample] for some examples.
     250
     251'''Note that you need to set up permissions in order to see the buttons for adding or editing reports.'''
    214252
    215253----
    216 See also: TracTickets, TracQuery, TracGuide
     254See also: TracTickets, TracQuery, TracGuide, [http://www.sqlite.org/lang_expr.html Query Language Understood by SQLite]