[Koha-devel] [PATCH] Custom Reports

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I've written a new "Custom Reports" addition for Koha to allow Koha
> users to trade more complicated reports that cannot be represented in
> pure SQL. Here's how it works:

It's an interesting notion, albeit one that I think should be targeted
for 3.4.  The mechanism will be a bit risky, though; since the krz
files can contain arbitrary Perl, they can do *anything* to a Koha
database.  In a sense, what you're proposing amounts to a
general-purpose plugin system for Koha, with all of the benefits and
security risks thereof.

> The report.ini file looks something like this:
> name=Access PA
> author=Kyle M Hall
> description=A Report of the data necessary to fill out the Access PA
> report form.
> start=access_pa/step1.pl

I think another piece of metadata is needed - the minimum Koha version
number required to run the report.

Regards,

Galen
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Galen Charlton
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