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--- evergreen-reports:meetings:2012-04-25 [2012/05/17 10:45] – [About the Reports Taskforce] jturner
+++ evergreen-reports:meetings:2012-04-25 [2012/05/17 10:52] – [How many sites are writing their own SQL reports?] jturner
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 ==== How many sites are writing their own SQL reports? ====
-        Not too many people appeared to be using SQL currently, but there was an interest from many in learning more about this option
+Not too many people appeared to be using SQL currently, but there was an interest from many in learning more about this option.
 ====  Sharing/Q&A/Divide into topical discussion groups (see below) ====
-  * Newbies/Investigators (Jenny, PALS; Shae, ESI)
+  * Newbies/Investigators (Jenny Turner, PALS; Shae Tetterton, ESI)
-  * Staff Client Report Ideas/New in 2.2 (Jess, Biblio)
+  * Staff Client Report Ideas/New in 2.2 (Jess Venturo, Biblio)
-  * SQL (Amy, Biblio)
+  * SQL (Amy Terlaga, Biblio)
 ====  Wireframes for Reports development ====
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   * Q/A about reports: sources come from database tables; perhaps it is time to redesign to prevent recursive-ness within the client report writer; important to learn how to kill reports. A few sites have issues with the reporter "stopping up;" need to restart it periodically.
   * Learn SQL vs. learn the reports writer in the client
-  * SQL is powerful, but puts the onus for reports on the person that knows SQL. Also requires DB access.
+    * SQL is powerful, but puts the onus for reports on the person that knows SQL. Also requires DB access.
-  * Learning the reports writer allows you to empower staff to run/clone own reports.
+    * Learning the reports writer allows you to empower staff to run/clone own reports.
   * Shortcomings of the report writer
   * "Best" documentation: Sitka has great training videos; current users suggested looking for "text" fields when building reports and following instructions for building a specific report (from another library) to begin to learn and understand the structure of the writer.  Pivot tables training in Excel has been handy for some library staff.