Re: [Koha-devel] [PATCH] Custom Reports

2010-01-26 Thread Kyle Hall
> 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 syst

Re: [Koha-devel] [PATCH] Custom Reports

2010-01-26 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Kyle Hall 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 targ

Re: [Koha-devel] [PATCH] Custom Reports

2010-01-26 Thread Kyle Hall
Also, the report_dir should be named in a fashion to guarantee uniquness. I have used a java style naming system, so each report is named org.ccfls.REPORT_NAME. If Biblibre created custom reports, they would be named com.biblibre.REPORT_NAME and so on. I should note this patch does not represent t

Re: [Koha-devel] [PATCH] Custom Reports

2010-01-26 Thread Kyle Hall
Hello All, 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: Each report is downloaded as a .krz file. This filetype is just a zip file with a specific structure ( sort of like