Make option to allow/not allow running reports off Shared Templates
Bug #1896659 reported by
Jennifer Bruch
This bug affects 25 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Evergreen |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
PaILS is on 3.3.6
Many library consortiums try to have some level of official Shared Reports for use by the libraries in its group.
However, the ability to run a report off a shared template has resulted in many convoluted solutions to updating/
It would be nice if there were some options to simplify this problem.
Such as:
Settings to Allow/Not Allow running reports off a Shared Template
Ability to Delete a Template even if another user has a report running off it
tags: | added: reports |
Changed in evergreen: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Confirmed |
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I agree that it can be difficult to manage and clean-up shared report templates. But, I think the idea behind the shared templates is that anyone with access could use them to run reports. I'm not sure that there is value in sharing if this would not be the case. I also would not advocate allowing templates to be deleted if other users had run reports associated with those templates.
While shared templates can be hard to manage they do, in theory, ensure that all users are getting the same report output and it is easier to update one template than multiple copies of the same template.