Doomed Reports?

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Mon Oct 25 22:45:05 UTC 2004


Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> the only option I see to remove the initial barrier the UI
> presents is adding some links to common queries to report.cgi (that can
> also act as a gentle way to show off the really cool reporting we have
> to the end-user). My suggestion is therefore to remodel "Reporting and
> Charting Kitchen" into something that is more inductive -- suggesting
> concrete tasks the user can do instead of offering an array of options
> that can be confusingly similar (Old Charts? New Charts? Reports? What's
> the difference?). I think we've got a formidable reporting solution, but
> I suspect few people know it exists, and less actually manage to use it.

I'll certainly buy that. We could have some sample reports or charts for 
each section.

File a bug on me, and I'll do it while I'm away :-)

Gerv



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