[TYPO3-hci] Producing "reports" with TYPO3

[stefano cecere]

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