Re: Requesting a report in the QuickEntry

To me at least, "report {daily|weekly|monthly}" seems to imply scheduling 
reports, i.e., that it will be run every day/week/month. So the second one 
might be better in that respect too, as well as flexibility.

Davor


On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Vera wrote:

> Hello,
>
> As I am working on the reports feature for Chandler, I would like to improve
> the "/report" command.
> In the current stage a weekly report is created when "/report" command is
> typed in the QuickEntry field. I was thinking to add flexibility and allow
> the users to request a report for any period of time. There are two options
> I thought about:
>
> 1) Rigid, but possibly simple to use:
> "/report daily" - for the last day
> "/report weekly" - for the last week
> "/report monthly" - for the last month
> "/report" - will result in a default weekly report
>
> 2) Flexible, similar to the timedelta in Python
> "/report days=1" - for one day
> "/report hours=2" - for the last two hours
> "/report weeks=2" - for the last two weeks
> and so forth
>
> What are your opinions?
>
> A reminder on the reports project may be found in
> http://chandlerproject.org/Journal/ToStartWithProposal (updated based on the
> discussion in the design list).
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Vera (Google Summer of Code)
>
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