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Hi All,

I am Pranay. I am a fourth-year Computer Science undergrad, pursuing Bachelors and Masters (Dual Degree) from IIT Kharagpur, India. I heard about CiviCRM from my friend, Utkarsh Sharma, who worked with CiviCRM during last year's GSoC and worked closely with him on his project. I really liked the concept of the project he was working on and that's what motivated me to work on a project this year with CiviCRM through GSoC.

The project titled Report Builder GUI caught my eye particularly because I had worked on a project very similar to this one during my internship at Symantec right after my second year. I worked with the Telemetry team on building a web dashboard for the enterprise clients of Symantec's prime security product - Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP), where they can request, view and download the SEP Performance reports based on the filters set by them viz. period for the report (daily, weekly, monthly or custom CRON). Entire code was reviewed, perfected and pushed to production. It was during this time, when I got myself introduced with JasperReports and several other modules like JFreeChart etc.

I see that the project Report Builder GUI intersects to a great extent with the one I did during my internship, hence the application. As far as my professional experience is concerned, I have worked with several big names in the Software Industry viz. GE and Symantec as a Software Engineering Intern. I recently interned with Hike, India's fastest growing messaging app with over 100M mobile users in India and over 40B messages per month, as a Machine Learning Intern.

I have been in contact with Brian and Jaap, the mentors associated with this project, since past few weeks and they have helped me to a great extent in identifying exactly what areas should be focused on and possible approaches for the project. I will start working on the proposal soon! Can't wait to get started !! 

[Log: April 26, 2016]
Skype call with Brian and Jaap.
Minutes of Meeting:

• Weekly Check-ins via Skype on Wednesdays at 07:30 PM IST
• Daily Check-ins on the CiviCRM GSoC Forum
• Regular commits to the GitHub repo for the project (https://github.com/ypranay/ReportBuilderGUI)
• The proposed Report Building module will be constructed as a CiviCRM extension
• Setting up a Development website where Jaap and Brian can review and test my progress
• Reaching out to them via email or skype if I run into any issues or have questions, etc.
• Getting familiar with CiviCRM code-base and documentation
• Begin development full-time after May 9 - post my end-semester examinations and thesis evaluation

[Log: April 30, 2016]
TODO:

• Publishing a development website on my domain
• Get started with Civix: Extension Builder by totten

Log: May 12, 2016

Still trying to fully install CiviCRM on the space provided by Brian. Resolved issues relating to ftp/ssh connections to the domain, installed WP and stuck at the final stage of CiviCRM installation.

First installed CiviCRM without checking the box for sample data. Decided to revert back to deleting CiviCRM and re-installing it. Facing some errors during re-installation. Contacted the mentors for some help regarding the same.

Will post the work-flow for the next week by tonight or early morning of May 13 in IST.

Log: May 20, 2016

Spent the day finding myself around AngularJS documentation and tutorials here- https://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial. Built a small application on AngularJS having a simplistic GUI. Also,  followed the MVA Series on AngularJS- what, why and hows of AngularJS.

My personal favorite are the native AngularJS docs and tutorials. They are pretty comprehensive and explanatory for people who want to switch to AngularJS, like myself. A bit tough sometimes to comprehend, for which I would recommend seeing the MVA session on AngularJS, which we can find on YouTube pretty easily.

Hi All,

I am trying to see this extension - Activity Report (https://github.com/compucorp/uk.co.compucorp.civicrm.activityreport) into action. I downloaded the repository and placed it in the extensions directory of my WP site and installed the extension properly.

So far so good, when I click the "Activity Report" link under "Reports", I get a 500 error. I couldn't find any relevant error logs in the ConfigAndLog dir as well. I am a little clueless here. Any suggestions on how to resolve this error?

Thanks,
Pranay.

P.S: Resolved...

As Brian quoted, this extension is reported to be compatible with CiviCRM 4.2 and may not be accurate for CiviCRM 4.7. I looked at ConfigAndLog dir for useful logs but didn't find anything relevant. Looking at the error_log file within the wp-admin dir, revealed a reference to a Drupal-specific translate function t() in the Data.php file. Deleting the function call ultimately solved the issue.

[Log: June 22, 2016]
Today and in the next few days, I will be focussing on the following things as per my discussion with Brian and Jaap yesterday:

• Adding support for excluding attributes from the Contribution summary
• Removing duplicate attributes from the Pivot table
• Include basic contact info attributes into the Pivot table
• Add "How To Use" banner on top of the extension page
• Add a few more useful derived attributes like quarterly contribution records

Currently, working on the second item in the above list. So far, no hack has worked. Will be spending few more hours on the same.

With reference to an email conversation between myself, Brian and Jaap a few hours ago, I added the following functionality as well:

• Added contact_type attribute to the contribution data pivot table
• Added a expand/minimise feature to the "How To Use" banner, in order to improve UX

Please refer to the extension repository for the latest code-base.