[TYPO3-hci] Producing "reports" with TYPO3
Lucas Thurston
lucas at castironcoding.com
Thu May 18 20:40:45 CEST 2006
Hi all,
One request I keep hearing from my clients is for a way to produce
"reports" from the backend. I should probably define what I mean by
"reports" since it could mean many things. By "reports" I mean a useful
and human-readable collection of data from database tables with little
or no processing.
Say for instance we have a TYPO3 site with a conference registration
extension. Only registered fe users can register for conferences, so
there's a database relation between the registrants and the fe_users
table. Imagine if, in the list module, certain fields from the fe_users
(eg name, phone, email) table could be JOINed on the registrants table,
then, using the CSV export feature that already exists, the site admin
could produce a spreadsheet document of registrants. This is a simple
example--three or more tables ideally could be JOINed.
This would be an extremely useful feature for organizations and web
admins without knowledge of sql/database normalization. I would be
interested in working on such a project.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? How difficult would be it be to
implement? Does this fall into the realm of improving HCI?
best,
Lucas
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