[TYPO3-hci] Producing "reports" with TYPO3
stefano cecere
scecere at krur.com
Thu May 18 20:49:44 CEST 2006
wel.. this could go into a little project to extend the existing basic csv export of a table.
yes very interesting indeed.
stefano
Lucas Thurston wrote:
> 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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