Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of TracReports


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  • TracReports

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    1717  ''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.''
    1818
    19 
    2019A report consists of these basic parts:
    21  * '''ID''' -- Unique (sequential) identifier
    22  * '''Title'''  -- Descriptive title
    23  * '''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.
    2625
    2726== Changing Sort Order ==
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    3130
    3231== 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):
     32There 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:
    3433 * id integer PRIMARY KEY
    3534 * author text
    … …  
    4847Clicking 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.
    4948
    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)''
     49You 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).
    5150
    5251== Alternative Download Formats ==
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    5756=== Comma-delimited - CSV (Comma Separated Values) ===
    5857Export 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.
    6059
    6160=== Tab-delimited ===
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    7170''Creating a custom report requires a comfortable knowledge of SQL.''
    7271
     72'''Note that you need to set up [TracPermissions#Reports permissions] in order to see the buttons for adding or editing reports.'''
     73
    7374A report is basically a single named SQL query, executed and presented by
    7475Trac.  Reports can be viewed and created from a custom SQL expression directly
    75 in from the web interface.
     76in the web interface.
    7677
    7778Typically, a report consists of a SELECT-expression from the 'ticket' table,
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    100101See TracTickets for a detailed description of the column fields.
    101102
    102 '''all active tickets, sorted by priority and time'''
    103 
    104 '''Example:''' ''All active tickets, sorted by priority and time''
     103Example: '''All active tickets, sorted by priority and time'''
    105104{{{
    106105SELECT id AS ticket, status, severity, priority, owner,
    107        time as created, summary FROM ticket
     106       time AS created, summary FROM ticket
    108107  WHERE status IN ('new', 'assigned', 'reopened')
    109108  ORDER BY priority, time
    110109}}}
    111 
    112 
    113 ----
    114110
    115111
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    141137
    142138
    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.
     139=== !Special/Constant Variables ===
     140There is one dynamic variable whose value is set automatically (the URL does not have to be changed) to allow practical reports.
     141
     142 * $USER — Username of logged in user.
    147143
    148144Example (''List all tickets assigned to me''):
    … …  
    151147}}}
    152148
    153 
    154 ----
    155149
    156150
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    160154specialized SQL statements to control the output of the Trac report engine.
    161155
    162 == Special Columns ==
     156=== Special Columns ===
    163157To format reports, TracReports looks for 'magic' column names in the query
    164158result. These 'magic' names are processed and affect the layout and style of the
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    166160
    167161=== 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.
     162 * '''ticket''' — Ticket ID number. Becomes a hyperlink to that ticket.
     163 * '''id''' — same as '''ticket''' above when '''realm''' is not set
     164 * '''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)
     165   - 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
     166 * '''created, modified, date, time''' — Format cell as a date and/or time.
     167 * '''description''' — Ticket description field, parsed through the wiki engine.
    173168
    174169'''Example:'''
    175170{{{
    176 SELECT id as ticket, created, status, summary FROM ticket
     171SELECT id AS ticket, created, status, summary FROM ticket
    177172}}}
    178173
    179174Those columns can also be defined but marked as hidden, see [#column-syntax below].
     175
     176See trac:wiki/CookBook/Configuration/Reports for some example of creating reports for realms other than ''ticket''.
    180177
    181178=== Custom formatting columns ===
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    183180assumed to be ''formatting hints'', affecting the appearance of the row.
    184181 
    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.
     182 * '''`__group__`''' — Group results based on values in this column. Each group will have its own header and table.
     183 * '''`__grouplink__`''' — Make the header of each group a link to the specified URL. The URL is taken from the first row of each group.
     184 * '''`__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.
    187185{{{
    188186#!html
    … …  
    195193</div>
    196194}}}
    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''
     195 * '''`__style__`''' — A custom CSS style expression to use on the `<tr>` element of the current row.
     196 * '''`__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.
     197
     198'''Example:''' ''List active tickets, grouped by milestone, group header linked to milestone page, colored by priority''
    200199{{{
    201200SELECT p.value AS __color__,
    202201     t.milestone AS __group__,
     202     '../milestone/' || t.milestone AS __grouplink__,
    203203     (CASE owner WHEN 'daniel' THEN 'font-weight: bold; background: red;' ELSE '' END) AS __style__,
    204204       t.id AS ticket, summary
    … …  
    217217also possible to create multi-line report entries.
    218218
    219  * '''`column_`''' -- ''Break row after this''. By appending an underscore ('_') to the column name, the remaining columns will be be 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).
     219 * '''`column_`''' — ''Break row after this''. By appending an underscore ('_') to the column name, the remaining columns will be 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).
    224224   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.
    225225
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    245245=== Reporting on custom fields ===
    246246
    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.
     247If 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.
    248248
    249249If 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.
    250250
    251 '''Note that you need to set up permissions in order to see the buttons for adding or editing reports.'''
     251=== A note about SQL rewriting #rewriting
     252
     253Beyond the relatively trivial replacement of dynamic variables, the SQL query is also altered in order to support two features of the reports:
     254 1. [#sort-order changing the sort order]
     255 2. pagination support (limitation of the number of result rows displayed on each page)
     256In 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.
     257The 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:
     258 - `@SORT_COLUMN@`, the place where the name of the selected sort column will be inserted,
     259 - `@LIMIT_OFFSET@`, the place where the pagination support clause will be added
     260Note that if you write them after an SQL comment, `--`, you'll effectively disable rewriting if this is what you want!
     261
     262Let's take an example, consider the following SQL query:
     263{{{
     264-- ## 4: Assigned, Active Tickets by Owner ## --
     265
     266--
     267-- List assigned tickets, group by ticket owner, sorted by priority.
     268--
     269
     270SELECT p.value AS __color__,
     271   owner AS __group__,
     272   id AS ticket, summary, component, milestone, t.type AS type, severity, time AS created,
     273   changetime AS _changetime, description AS _description,
     274   reporter AS _reporter
     275  FROM ticket t,enum p
     276  WHERE status = 'assigned'
     277AND p.name=t.priority AND p.type='priority'
     278  ORDER BY __group__, p.value, severity, time
     279}}}
     280
     281The automatic rewrite will be the following (4 rows per page, page 2, sorted by `component`):
     282{{{
     283SELECT p.value AS __color__,
     284   owner AS __group__,
     285   id AS ticket, summary, component, milestone, t.type AS type, severity, time AS created,
     286   changetime AS _changetime, description AS _description,
     287   reporter AS _reporter
     288  FROM ticket t,enum p
     289  WHERE status = 'assigned'
     290AND p.name=t.priority AND p.type='priority'
     291  ORDER BY __group__ ASC, `component` ASC,  __group__, p.value, severity, time
     292 LIMIT 4 OFFSET 4
     293}}}
     294
     295The equivalent SQL query with the rewrite tokens would have been:
     296{{{
     297SELECT p.value AS __color__,
     298   owner AS __group__,
     299   id AS ticket, summary, component, milestone, t.type AS type, severity, time AS created,
     300   changetime AS _changetime, description AS _description,
     301   reporter AS _reporter
     302  FROM ticket t,enum p
     303  WHERE status = 'assigned'
     304AND p.name=t.priority AND p.type='priority'
     305  ORDER BY __group__, @SORT_COLUMN@, p.value, severity, time
     306@LIMIT_OFFSET@
     307}}}
     308
     309If you want to always sort first by priority and only then by the user selected sort column, simply use the following `ORDER BY` clause:
     310{{{
     311  ORDER BY __group__, p.value, @SORT_COLUMN@, severity, time
     312}}}
    252313
    253314----