[Koha-bugs] [Bug 10627] history of reports run/results

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10627

--- Comment #4 from Claire Elliott <celliott at dawsoncollege.qc.ca> ---
(In reply to Galen Charlton from comment #3)


> ...could you describe a workflow or two that you would like involving saved 
> report output?  The obvious one is simply the ability to go back and view or 
> save the results of a past report run, but I'd like to suss out whether there 
> are other things that you are used to doing with saved reports.

Sorry for the delayed response, but I wanted to confer with my colleague in
cataloguing before getting back to you. 

>From my discussion with her, I am confident in saying that the main reason we
appreciate these reports is that they allow us to compare results from one run
to the next. To be precise, they are useful because they tell us (a) exactly
how/what we searched to get a particular list of results or how we approached a
certain system task/modification (meaning we can duplicate the same
search/process to produce comparable results), and (b) they preserve the actual
results of a search or action carried out at a specific point in time. 

In brief, we don’t run/save a report with the intent to manipulate/re-format
the content for some further purpose, so can’t claim that there is any other
‘workflow’ that depends on these already-run “Reports”/”Tools”… They are really
just there to consult, and to provide us with a valuable record of what we have
done on the system and how the collection is evolving.

That said, having now opened this thread, I feel I should confess that, as
newcomers to Koha, we still need and fully intend to do a bit more homework to
determine whether we can achieve most of our needs by using, or building new
Reports and querying existing log(s) data. At first glance, this option did not
appear sufficient to us, but we can't claim to have investigated it thoroughly. 

Thank you!

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