Comment 5 for bug 976757

Tom,

On the selfish side, certainly a lot less work for the user if I can simply select the data I want through the interface and then export the results. From a usability standpoint, it's clean and straightforward.

However, most users who would need the data outside of the program probably have the ability to massage it properly, so although it would be a bit more work, it would definitely be usable to simply dump all the report sheets to an excel file and certainly has the advantage of flexibility and delivery speed (easier to code.)

For us, either solution would work but I guess I would initially lean toward dumping all the report sheet data (as long as it would include all the deployed report sheets)

Thanks!
Rena

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of Tom Hoffman
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 10:50 AM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 976757] Re: Report Card Data should be Exportable

I guess the question in my mind is whether we need a step where you choose which columns for each report sheet shows up -- more or less like the report card grid setup now -- or if we should just dump all the report sheets and let you rearrange them in Excel and otherwise process them as you see fit. The second is, of course, a bit easier for us, and perhaps a bit less confusing for users. But perhaps more work for users...

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Title:
  Report Card Data should be Exportable

Status in SchoolTool:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Suggestion: Our school has a very intricately designed report card
  layout. If report card data is available for export a school could
  use the data in customized reports (then schooltool would not need a
  fully developed reporting interface right off.) As it sits, it
  appears that in order to obtain the same data that is displayed in the
  report card .PDF, I must download the individual gradebooks for each
  individual teacher and then merge the data. Schooltool is already
  running the query that produces the summarized report card data. It
  would be very helpful to have access to that in any usable format
  (even .CSV)

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