Thanks for the feedback, Wendy. I think the issue you’re pointing out is one of 
terminology when there is a value with a Boolean like Publish. You can choose 
to display these, and you can choose to narrow by a value or Yes, a value of 
No, or no value at all. You are correct that the blank option would be the one 
to select if you check of Display on these, but don’t want to limit which 
records display. We’ll look into how to make that clearer.

We’re aiming to have the release with custom reports out by the end of the 
year, though there are many factors that will impact the specific timing. We’ll 
have more information to share in the coming weeks.

Christine

From: archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org 
<archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> On Behalf Of Wendy 
Scheir
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2021 11:50 AM
To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org>
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Developing custom reports

Thank you, Christine! I gave this a test and it does indeed have just the 
functionality that we are seeking!

As for feedback, I only gave it three tries, and selecting fields to include 
worked well. The place that I had a bit of trouble was understanding how the 
combination "Display"/"Narrow by Values" was working. If one does not click 
Display, does one still need to narrow by a value, or, if one does not want to 
narrow by a value, does one need to select the blank option in the dropdown, 
even if one has not checked Display? What I was trying to do was to see if I 
could generate a report that included all of the resources present in the 
sandbox, but the test runs, despite my various selections of Display/Narrow by 
Values, I all 3 times ended up with a list of only 2 of the 10 resources. I was 
probably just not clicking the right combination of Display/Narrow by Value 
options, so maybe just a revision of terminology or rollover instructions or 
something like that would help.

But this is an exciting feature--when is the new release?!

Wendy

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 9:57 AM Christine Di Bella 
<christine.dibe...@lyrasis.org<mailto:christine.dibe...@lyrasis.org>> wrote:
Hi Wendy (and everyone),

There may be plugins and community solutions that people can share, but we are 
working on some custom reports functionality that we hope to put into the next 
release of ArchivesSpace. It’s still in progress, but testable on the test 
server at http://test.archivesspace.org (username admin, password admin). The 
way it works is that a user creates re-runnable templates for custom reports 
using the Custom Report Templates option on the gear menu, and then can use the 
templates when selecting the new Custom Reports option in the reports area.

We’d welcome feedback about this work-in-progress feature. You can send it to 
us at archivesspaceh...@lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspaceh...@lyrasis.org>.

Christine

Christine Di Bella
ArchivesSpace Program Manager
christine.dibe...@lyrasis.org<mailto:christine.dibe...@lyrasis.org>
800.999.8558 x2905
678-235-2905


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<archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org>>
 On Behalf Of Wendy Scheir
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2021 9:34 AM
To: Archivesspace Users Group 
<archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org>>
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Developing custom reports

Dear Adrien,

An extremely belated followup to your message about creating custom reports. We 
are especially in need of an export of a csv list from the SUI of resource 
record level data (either a full dump or selectable fields) to gather data for 
reporting purposes. I think this matches one that you described in your 
message. Did you move ahead with developing this report, or perhaps find one 
that already existed? Do any other list members know of such a report or plugin 
that can be installed and then activated from the SUI?

Many thanks,

Wendy

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