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For report users

• Sort reports by any column
• Filter results
• Create and share saved searches
• Set up scheduled reports to be received via email
• Export reports to Excel, Open Office, CSV or Google Fusion
• My reports block for easy access to your own reports
• Show/hide individual columns (remove?)
• Available in 17 languages (Arabic, German, US English, English, Castilian Spanish, International Spanish, Finish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish and Simplified Chinese)

For administrators

• Wide range of existing report sources available
• Ability to select which columns to display, their order and heading names
• Ability to include standard and advanced filters
• Ability to report on standard and custom user profile fields
• Control access to individual reports
• Define default sort order and records per page
• Dynamic content control so one report can serve many users

For developers

• Ability to embed reports in standard moodle pages (still configurable via the interface)
• Easily extensible. Plugin architecture for:
  • Report sources
  • Column options
  • Column display functions
  • Restricting report content
  • Restricting report access
• Flexiblity when building sources (reports can be based off subqueries, etc)
• Single query model, automatic trimming of unnecessary joins and pagination lead to good scaling/performance
• Coded to moodle coding guidelines (including full PHPdocs code documentation)
• Good unit test coverage (112 tests plus dynamically generated tests of each report source)