Christian Boos wrote: > Tim Diggins wrote: >> quick questions (more waffle for each question below): >> >> 1) is there any way of customizing what you get when you click "View >> Tickets" with reports disabled? > > Yes, this was discussed on trac-dev, and the current idea is to have a > [ticket] default_report configuration setting, which you can set to > anything ... even a Wiki page as you suggested (see > http://groups.google.com/group/trac-dev/msg/514ed4f34255d722 for details). > This is not yet done, but should be soon.
great - that looks (ahem) just the ticket (aplogies for dreadful british pun!) >> 2) http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracReports has suggested that the >> "report" module is being phased out, but is this still true > > What is problematic with the reports is that using them implies an > intimate knowledge of the Trac database model and often of the SQL > dialect of the database used (especially for date/time related queries). > This means that reports can eventually break at each Trac upgrade or > database migration (less frequent, but still...). This being said, those > arguments only stand as long as the report queries are written in SQL. > As you noticed, with #1735 Trac custom queries can be saved as reports > as well, so those inconveniences are not relevant anymore. > > I think that rather than being phased out, the report module will evolve > and move away from supporting direct SQL queries and rather focus on the > TracQuery language, which itself should evolve a lot in order to match > the possibilities currently offered by SQL queries. See also > http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/2465. would it be a good idea to add some of this thinking to the italicised note on http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracReports (or at the bottom of the page... or on a separate TracReportsFuture) - happy to do a good first attempt of this if helpful --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
