reportbuilder/Overview
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Report builder provides an interface to allow administrators to generate reports, customise their appearance, then make them available to groups of users. It is designed to be easily extensible, so developers can add to existing report sources and write their own to allow administrators to generate the kind of reports they are interested in.
Each report generated by a user is based on a "report source". Which defines:
- Which set of data makes up each "record" of the table (e.g. courses, users, face-to-face sessions)
- Which columns, filters and content restrictions are available to an administrator to include in a report
- A default setup for the table that is generated when the report is first created (to help you get going quickly)
Report sources are written by developers and are just a PHP file containing the information needed to generate the report. There are some helper functions to allow developers to easily add commonly needed columns and filters (such as user profile fields, course information, etc).
Other topics
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- Data can be user input saved to db or embedded
- Code, base source, individual sources.
- File format and location of sources
- Source classes and documentation
- When it is necessary to rebuild a report when editing the source
