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Hi Everyone,<br>
<br>
We've today published an update to the Generic Reporting Framework
that should make it more useful out-of-the-box and more configurable
for existing reports and future reports. <br>
<br>
The updates are documented at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Generic_Reporting_Framework">https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Generic_Reporting_Framework</a> but to
provide a brief overview of the new functionality, the update
includes:<br>
<ol>
<li><b>New 'EPrints' and 'User' custom reports.</b> These allow
for reports to be generated about the eprint and user datasets.
Once the reports are generated they can be exported, with the
'Export Options' interface allowing you to choose which fields
you'd like to include in your exported report, making it much
easier to create spreadsheets that only contain the relevant
information.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li><b>HTML Report Export. </b>This new export format creates an
HTML page of the generated report. The look and feel of this
report can be configured by specifying a custom template to be
used, or using CSS classes, and the HTML report can also be
printed to PDF using your browser's print to PDF functionality.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li><b>Grouping and Sorting. </b>Reports now have 'Group by' and
'Sort by' options where configured allowing for the items in a
report to be reorganised. <br>
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</li>
<li><b>Export Virtual Report Fields. </b>Virtual fields may be
defined in the report's configuration allowing for values
generated by a custom function to be included in the export. <br>
</li>
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<p>We hope you find these updates useful!<br>
</p>
Merry Christmas!<br>
<br>
Will<br>
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