Configurable reports block (plugin)

This may or may not be a good thing Juan.

But I suspect posting here in an obscure little forum may not get a big audience.  I'm not sure what to suggest.

I'll have a think.

Good luck.

-Derek

I think i is a good idea and definitely worth giving it a shot. See https://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=8090 - it's not very popular but maybe it's time to expose it a bit more.

There are surely many companies that do use that functionality and would easily contribute few hundred EUR for maintenance.

You should try that and put information in the visible places - like your plugin main description. Maybe some people would sponsor it if you could add "supported/sponsored by company X" on the plugin page? Just an idea.

Tomek

Hi Juan

I've used Configurable Reports for many years, and along with Tim's Ad-hoc SQL Reporting these have been the two "go to" plugins for reporting, and we've promoted them to others (clients, at Moots, etc.)

However, I feel that the report builder that's been adopted for core is going to be the tool that 90% of people will use, simply because it is in core.

I think the whole area of logs and reporting is not yet right, but maybe it will get better over the next few releases.

If enough people feel that CF is able to offer something valuable, and it can do things better or different to the basic functionality of the in-built report builder, then HRDNZ might consider sponsoring the ongoing development of this - as long as we can clearly show our sponsorship.

Stu

Juan,

I've spent time with the Report builder in Totara with several projects over the last year, so I am familiar with what it can do. I'd agree with what Stuart said: it will cover what most people ask for in reports and do a fine job, even if not all the advanced features it has will make it to core at first. It's already a rich and mature tool.

Clearly people who are now using CR for the user/course/category type reports will be able to replicate those in the new Report builder, if not right away, then eventually by rebuilding them. I think a bridge converter from CR to Report builder would be very useful thing , but those who do have a lot of standard reports now in CR should raise their voices to be heard on this issue if they want to continue CR for a while until they can convert over.

Since the OU Ad-Hoc plugin handles only SQL and already has good scheduling abilities, it can continue to fill in that gap which the Report builder will not have. Though I work a lot in CR, I happily use AD when I need the scheduling and email notices.  Almost all my client reporting work, though, is with direct SQL, not the standard type reports. So, although I really enjoy CR and have promoted it whenever I can, if it was discontinued, AD would continue to serve most of my SQL reporting needs.  (I suspect I am not in the majority situation though.)

Randy

Well,

it seems that finally the report builder will not be available for Moodle 2.8 so I'm thinking in starting a crowdfunding project in order to upgrade the plugin to 2.8 and fix the most voted bugs in the tracker

Cheers, Juan

We depend on Configurable Reports, to the extent that we have a developer working on adding features (scheduling), hopefully to be rolled back into the main branch. We would be willing to help fund further development, I think. Please continue to develop and support CR!

Hello again,

since I maintain different add-ons (configurable reports, jmail and the LTI Provider plugin), Joseph Thibault (Moodlenews.com and Moodlegarage.com) has created a survey for getting feedback on the different projects you may support.

Survey link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gPfnM9-m_35VeDCoCAg3jA1yHhGuLuI2w7bCSJLfQwU/viewform