Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of TracReports
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v1 v2 17 17 ''This will make the query module the default handler for the “View Tickets” navigation item. We encourage you to try this configuration and report back what kind of features of reports you are missing, if any.'' 18 18 19 20 19 A report consists of these basic parts: 21 * '''ID''' --Unique (sequential) identifier22 * '''Title''' --Descriptive title23 * '''Description''' --A brief description of the report, in WikiFormatting text.24 * '''Report Body''' --List of results from report query, formatted according to the methods described below.25 * '''Footer''' --Links to alternative download formats for this report.20 * '''ID''' — Unique (sequential) identifier 21 * '''Title''' — Descriptive title 22 * '''Description''' — A brief description of the report, in WikiFormatting text. 23 * '''Report Body''' — List of results from report query, formatted according to the methods described below. 24 * '''Footer''' — Links to alternative download formats for this report. 26 25 27 26 == Changing Sort Order == … … 31 30 32 31 == Changing Report Numbering == 33 There may be instances where you need to change the ID of the report, perhaps to organize the reports better. At present this requires changes to the trac database. The ''report'' table has the following schema (as of 0.10):32 There may be instances where you need to change the ID of the report, perhaps to organize the reports better. At present this requires changes to the trac database. The ''report'' table has the following schema: 34 33 * id integer PRIMARY KEY 35 34 * author text … … 48 47 Clicking on one of the report results will take you to that ticket. You can navigate through the results by clicking the ''Next Ticket'' or ''Previous Ticket'' links just below the main menu bar, or click the ''Back to Report'' link to return to the report page. 49 48 50 You can safely edit any of the tickets and continue to navigate through the results using the Next/Previous/Back to Report links after saving your results, but when you return to the report, there will be no hint about what has changed, as would happen if you were navigating a list of tickets obtained from a query (see TracQuery#NavigatingTickets). ''(since 0.11)''49 You can safely edit any of the tickets and continue to navigate through the results using the ''!Next/Previous/Back to Report'' links after saving your results, but when you return to the report, there will be no hint about what has changed, as would happen if you were navigating a list of tickets obtained from a query (see TracQuery#NavigatingTickets). 51 50 52 51 == Alternative Download Formats == … … 57 56 === Comma-delimited - CSV (Comma Separated Values) === 58 57 Export the report as plain text, each row on its own line, columns separated by a single comma (','). 59 '''Note:''' Carriage returns, line feeds, and commas are stripped from column data to preserve the CSV structure.58 '''Note:''' The output is fully escaped so carriage returns, line feeds, and commas will be preserved in the output. 60 59 61 60 === Tab-delimited === … … 71 70 ''Creating a custom report requires a comfortable knowledge of SQL.'' 72 71 72 '''Note that you need to set up [TracPermissions#Reports permissions] in order to see the buttons for adding or editing reports.''' 73 73 74 A report is basically a single named SQL query, executed and presented by 74 75 Trac. Reports can be viewed and created from a custom SQL expression directly 75 in fromthe web interface.76 in the web interface. 76 77 77 78 Typically, a report consists of a SELECT-expression from the 'ticket' table, … … 100 101 See TracTickets for a detailed description of the column fields. 101 102 102 '''all active tickets, sorted by priority and time''' 103 104 '''Example:''' ''All active tickets, sorted by priority and time'' 103 Example: '''All active tickets, sorted by priority and time''' 105 104 {{{ 106 105 SELECT id AS ticket, status, severity, priority, owner, 107 time ascreated, summary FROM ticket106 time AS created, summary FROM ticket 108 107 WHERE status IN ('new', 'assigned', 'reopened') 109 108 ORDER BY priority, time 110 109 }}} 111 110 112 113 ---- 114 111 Dynamic variables can also be used in the report title and description (since 1.1.1). 115 112 116 113 == Advanced Reports: Dynamic Variables == … … 141 138 142 139 143 === Special/Constant Variables ===144 There is one ''magic'' dynamic variable to allow practical reports, its value automatically set without having to change the URL.145 146 * $USER --Username of logged in user.140 === !Special/Constant Variables === 141 There is one dynamic variable whose value is set automatically (the URL does not have to be changed) to allow practical reports. 142 143 * $USER — Username of logged in user. 147 144 148 145 Example (''List all tickets assigned to me''): … … 151 148 }}} 152 149 153 154 ----155 150 156 151 … … 160 155 specialized SQL statements to control the output of the Trac report engine. 161 156 162 == Special Columns==157 === Special Columns === 163 158 To format reports, TracReports looks for 'magic' column names in the query 164 159 result. These 'magic' names are processed and affect the layout and style of the … … 166 161 167 162 === Automatically formatted columns === 168 * '''ticket''' -- Ticket ID number. Becomes a hyperlink to that ticket. 169 * '''id''' -- same as '''ticket''' above when '''realm''' is not set 170 * '''realm''' -- together with '''id''', can be used to create links to other resources than tickets (e.g. a realm of ''wiki'' and an ''id'' to a page name will create a link to that wiki page) 171 * '''created, modified, date, time''' -- Format cell as a date and/or time. 172 * '''description''' -- Ticket description field, parsed through the wiki engine. 163 * '''ticket''' — Ticket ID number. Becomes a hyperlink to that ticket. 164 * '''id''' — same as '''ticket''' above when '''realm''' is not set 165 * '''realm''' — together with '''id''', can be used to create links to other resources than tickets (e.g. a realm of ''wiki'' and an ''id'' to a page name will create a link to that wiki page) 166 - for some kind of resources, it may be necessary to specify their ''parent'' resources (e.g. for ''changeset'', which ''repos'') and this can be achieved using the '''parent_realm''' and '''parent_id''' columns 167 * '''created, modified, date, time''' — Format cell as a date and/or time. 168 * '''description''' — Ticket description field, parsed through the wiki engine. 173 169 174 170 '''Example:''' 175 171 {{{ 176 SELECT id asticket, created, status, summary FROM ticket172 SELECT id AS ticket, created, status, summary FROM ticket 177 173 }}} 178 174 179 175 Those columns can also be defined but marked as hidden, see [#column-syntax below]. 176 177 See trac:wiki/CookBook/Configuration/Reports for some example of creating reports for realms other than ''ticket''. 180 178 181 179 === Custom formatting columns === … … 183 181 assumed to be ''formatting hints'', affecting the appearance of the row. 184 182 185 * '''`__group__`''' -- Group results based on values in this column. Each group will have its own header and table. 186 * '''`__color__`''' -- Should be a numeric value ranging from 1 to 5 to select a pre-defined row color. Typically used to color rows by issue priority. 183 * '''`__group__`''' — Group results based on values in this column. Each group will have its own header and table. 184 * '''`__grouplink__`''' — Make the header of each group a link to the specified URL. The URL is taken from the first row of each group. 185 * '''`__color__`''' — Should be a numeric value ranging from 1 to 5 to select a pre-defined row color. Typically used to color rows by issue priority. 187 186 {{{ 188 187 #!html … … 195 194 </div> 196 195 }}} 197 * '''`__style__`''' -- A custom CSS style expression to use for the current row. 198 199 '''Example:''' ''List active tickets, grouped by milestone, colored by priority'' 196 * '''`__style__`''' — A custom CSS style expression to use on the `<tr>` element of the current row. 197 * '''`__class__`''' — Zero or more space-separated CSS class names to be set on the `<tr>` element of the current row. These classes are added to the class name derived from `__color__` and the odd / even indicator. 198 199 '''Example:''' ''List active tickets, grouped by milestone, group header linked to milestone page, colored by priority'' 200 200 {{{ 201 201 SELECT p.value AS __color__, 202 202 t.milestone AS __group__, 203 '../milestone/' || t.milestone AS __grouplink__, 203 204 (CASE owner WHEN 'daniel' THEN 'font-weight: bold; background: red;' ELSE '' END) AS __style__, 204 205 t.id AS ticket, summary … … 217 218 also possible to create multi-line report entries. 218 219 219 * '''`column_`''' -- ''Break row after this''. By appending an underscore ('_') to the column name, the remaining columns will bebe continued on a second line.220 221 * '''`_column_`''' --''Full row''. By adding an underscore ('_') both at the beginning and the end of a column name, the data will be shown on a separate row.222 223 * '''`_column`''' --''Hide data''. Prepending an underscore ('_') to a column name instructs Trac to hide the contents from the HTML output. This is useful for information to be visible only if downloaded in other formats (like CSV or RSS/XML).220 * '''`column_`''' — ''Break row after this''. By appending an underscore ('_') to the column name, the remaining columns will be continued on a second line. 221 222 * '''`_column_`''' — ''Full row''. By adding an underscore ('_') both at the beginning and the end of a column name, the data will be shown on a separate row. 223 224 * '''`_column`''' — ''Hide data''. Prepending an underscore ('_') to a column name instructs Trac to hide the contents from the HTML output. This is useful for information to be visible only if downloaded in other formats (like CSV or RSS/XML). 224 225 This can be used to hide any kind of column, even important ones required for identifying the resource, e.g. `id as _id` will hide the '''Id''' column but the link to the ticket will be present. 225 226 … … 245 246 === Reporting on custom fields === 246 247 247 If you have added custom fields to your tickets ( a feature since v0.8,see TracTicketsCustomFields), you can write a SQL query to cover them. You'll need to make a join on the ticket_custom table, but this isn't especially easy.248 If you have added custom fields to your tickets (see TracTicketsCustomFields), you can write a SQL query to cover them. You'll need to make a join on the ticket_custom table, but this isn't especially easy. 248 249 249 250 If you have tickets in the database ''before'' you declare the extra fields in trac.ini, there will be no associated data in the ticket_custom table. To get around this, use SQL's "LEFT OUTER JOIN" clauses. See [trac:TracIniReportCustomFieldSample TracIniReportCustomFieldSample] for some examples. 250 251 251 '''Note that you need to set up permissions in order to see the buttons for adding or editing reports.''' 252 === A note about SQL rewriting #rewriting 253 254 Beyond the relatively trivial replacement of dynamic variables, the SQL query is also altered in order to support two features of the reports: 255 1. [#sort-order changing the sort order] 256 2. pagination support (limitation of the number of result rows displayed on each page) 257 In order to support the first feature, the sort column is inserted in the `ORDER BY` clause in the first position or in the second position if a `__group__` column is specified (an `ORDER BY` clause is created if needed). In order to support pagination, a `LIMIT ... OFFSET ...` clause is appended. 258 The query might be too complex for the automatic rewrite to work correctly, resulting in an erroneous query. In this case you still have the possibility to control exactly how the rewrite is done by manually inserting the following tokens: 259 - `@SORT_COLUMN@`, the place where the name of the selected sort column will be inserted, 260 - `@LIMIT_OFFSET@`, the place where the pagination support clause will be added 261 Note that if you write them after an SQL comment, `--`, you'll effectively disable rewriting if this is what you want! 262 263 Let's take an example, consider the following SQL query: 264 {{{ 265 -- ## 4: Assigned, Active Tickets by Owner ## -- 266 267 -- 268 -- List assigned tickets, group by ticket owner, sorted by priority. 269 -- 270 271 SELECT p.value AS __color__, 272 owner AS __group__, 273 id AS ticket, summary, component, milestone, t.type AS type, severity, time AS created, 274 changetime AS _changetime, description AS _description, 275 reporter AS _reporter 276 FROM ticket t,enum p 277 WHERE status = 'assigned' 278 AND p.name=t.priority AND p.type='priority' 279 ORDER BY __group__, p.value, severity, time 280 }}} 281 282 The automatic rewrite will be the following (4 rows per page, page 2, sorted by `component`): 283 {{{ 284 SELECT p.value AS __color__, 285 owner AS __group__, 286 id AS ticket, summary, component, milestone, t.type AS type, severity, time AS created, 287 changetime AS _changetime, description AS _description, 288 reporter AS _reporter 289 FROM ticket t,enum p 290 WHERE status = 'assigned' 291 AND p.name=t.priority AND p.type='priority' 292 ORDER BY __group__ ASC, `component` ASC, __group__, p.value, severity, time 293 LIMIT 4 OFFSET 4 294 }}} 295 296 The equivalent SQL query with the rewrite tokens would have been: 297 {{{ 298 SELECT p.value AS __color__, 299 owner AS __group__, 300 id AS ticket, summary, component, milestone, t.type AS type, severity, time AS created, 301 changetime AS _changetime, description AS _description, 302 reporter AS _reporter 303 FROM ticket t,enum p 304 WHERE status = 'assigned' 305 AND p.name=t.priority AND p.type='priority' 306 ORDER BY __group__, @SORT_COLUMN@, p.value, severity, time 307 @LIMIT_OFFSET@ 308 }}} 309 310 If you want to always sort first by priority and only then by the user selected sort column, simply use the following `ORDER BY` clause: 311 {{{ 312 ORDER BY __group__, p.value, @SORT_COLUMN@, severity, time 313 }}} 252 314 253 315 ----
