[Koha-devel] [Koha] Creating reports in Koha 3.0

[Chris Cormack]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Jesse Weaver <jesse.weaver at liblime.com> wrote:
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> As far as I know, this is due to the columns.def file not being up to date
> with the Koha database.
>
> A while back, we discussed using MySQL's COMMENT option to put descriptive
> information in the table schema. We have a couple of options:
>
> * Update columns.def so that it has all of the columns referenced by the
> guided reports tool.
> * Using a db update, add comments to all of those columns. These can be
> gotten by SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM <table>. This has the advantage of being
> more "proper", but is yet another displayed string in the database that
> would have to be translated... somehow.
>
> My vote is for columns.def, since it's under the template tree and therefore
> easily internationalized.

That was the plan I had when I put it there, so I vote for this too :)

Chris