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GregoryHeller

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Building New Reports from Scratch, and calculation operations
December 18, 2009, 05:20:19 pm
Two questions about CiviReports:

What is the process for building a new report from scratch (Rather than editing a template)?

Are there ways to create more complex calculations within a civireport? For example in the LYBUNT-like report that shows giving totals across many years, would it be possible to have a column that displays the increase or decrease in giving year over year in dollar amount, and/or percentage?

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Re: Building New Reports from Scratch, and calculation operations
December 18, 2009, 06:06:25 pm
You can do anything in a report that can be done w/ PHP :-)

An overview of how to build reports from scratch - written / contributed by Dave D from Physician Health Program (clap clap) is here:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviReport+structure+and+customization
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Re: Building New Reports from Scratch, and calculation operations
December 21, 2009, 01:33:40 pm
Our group has recently completed documentation on creating reports from scratch and our methods used for writing several custom reports.

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMUPCOMING/Custom+Reports+(How+to)

This documentation is new so please let me know if there is anything that needs to be added or clarified.

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Re: Building New Reports from Scratch, and calculation operations
July 15, 2010, 08:24:25 pm
I followed the written documentation concerning creating reports. However here is the error message I received when I run the report form the list.


Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'CRM/Report/Form/Contact/Summary1.php' (include_path='.:/home/servername/public_html/CRM/sites/all/modules/civicrm:/home/servername/public_html/CRM/sites/all/modules/civicrm/packages:.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/servername/public_html/CRM/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Controller.php on line 366

thanks in advance for your assistance.

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Re: Building New Reports from Scratch, and calculation operations
July 16, 2010, 07:22:29 am
Did you configure your Custom Templates Directory and Custom PHP Files Directory from Administer > Configure > Global Settings > Directories? (It looks like that step is missing from the How To doc - so might be good to add it in since it's required if you're running the new reports from custom directory paths).
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