Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Truncating fields in reports

2011-10-27 Thread Mike Rylander
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:28 PM, John Morris wrote: > On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 09:03 -0400, Whalen, Liam wrote: >> > >> > I currently truncate long fields like title or author on >> > reports so that it can fit in a nice tabular format.  Can't >> > find a way to do that with the generator. >> >> The

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Truncating fields in reports

2011-10-27 Thread Mike Rylander
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:28 PM, John Morris wrote: > On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 09:03 -0400, Whalen, Liam wrote: >> > >> > I currently truncate long fields like title or author on >> > reports so that it can fit in a nice tabular format.  Can't >> > find a way to do that with the generator. >> >> The

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Truncating fields in reports

2011-10-27 Thread John Morris
On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 09:03 -0400, Whalen, Liam wrote: > > > > I currently truncate long fields like title or author on > > reports so that it can fit in a nice tabular format. Can't > > find a way to do that with the generator. > > The tabular form of output that Evergreen uses for its repo

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Truncating fields in reports

2011-10-27 Thread Whalen, Liam
> -Original Message- > From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org > [mailto:open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org] > On Behalf Of John Morris > Sent: October 26, 2011 19:47 > To: Evergreen General > Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Truncat

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Truncating fields in reports

2011-10-26 Thread John Morris
On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 18:46 -0500, John Morris wrote: > I currently truncate long fields like title or author on reports so that > it can fit in a nice tabular format. Can't find a way to do that with > the generator. Replying to myself is bad form but I totally forgot to mention that I already

[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Truncating fields in reports

2011-10-26 Thread John Morris
Ok, all this talk of overdue reports got me back to tinkering with the EG graphical report generator. The couple of reports we have now I banged out as perl scripts because I couldn't figure out that fancy schamancy graphical thing at the time and we needed the reports. But I'd really rather do t