Re: [Summary-Talk] spawning new custom reports

[Cameron Knowlton <cameronk@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Advanced user trick
>-------------------
>If you are not scared off by complex HTML and funny codes, and willing to
>do some work without much technical support, you can do something like
>what you want right now. First you have to make your own report menu
>page. You can start by copying the HTML from the regular report menu.
>Then you can edit things around, adding in custom reports. You have to
>put the new report menu on one of your servers, and have people view
>their reports from there. The menu links will be wrong in the tab bars,
>but otherwise this is reasonably workable.

You just earned the cool award for the month. That's awesome, we can use 
that again and again and again, thank you!


>I am hoping to add a feature along the lines of fully custom reports
>eventually. What are all of the kinds of things you would like control
>over? Keep in mind that this particular feature isn't about reporting on
>things that Summary can't report on right now, it is about giving you
>more flexibility over how the reports appear and what shows up in the
>Overview, Report Menu, and tab bars.

with that feature above, I can see where you're going with fully custom 
reports. it would be great just to be able to add another report to 
'park' the newly generated report url.

maybe a cloning mechanism? then we could skip the 'reset the original 
report' step.

reorganizing the report menus would be another great idea; it would give 
us a better opportunity to develop different levels of service, and to 
white-label the solution for those few clients that demand it.

it would be a boon just to finalize the look and feel of the site to 
match our new upcoming web site. branding is always good.

all the other ideas you listed are great, too... we'd welcome them all.


cheers!
cameron


>One kind of thing you might be able to do is to create more reports, ones
>that can be gotten by using the existing report configuration screen but
>without losing the existing report, which is what you appear to be asking
>for here. Another is to be able to adjust what appears in the Overview,
>how many items are show in each category, and in what order. Yet another
>area would be to allow reorganization of the Report Menu and tab bars,
>changing the structure in which the reports are presented. Another option
>is to let you write free form HTML with values inserted from Summary's
>reports, so you could make things look very very different. I am
>wondering which of these, or other things along the same lines, people
>would be most interested in having?
>
>The most commonly requested feature so far is to make minor changes to
>the Overview, changing the number of items displayed in some category,
>removing an item, or moving things that appear on one of the detailed
>overview pages to the main Overview. The second most common request along
>these lines is to have more slots for custom reports, what you were
>asking for.
>
>Jason
>

-- 
thanks  8^)

Cameron Knowlton
cameronk@igods.com
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