My IA Christmas Wishlist
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 6:33 pm
It's not much: all I want for Christmas is a reporting environment to allow for custom creation of IA reports. And by "custom creation" I don't mean "thoughtfully allow me a tick box to return optional notes".
I understand why they obfuscate the repository, but it makes for reports that no one likes.
I have tried in the past to get IA results out and in a format that doesn't mean getting laughed at by my clients (2000 page PDF for Summary Statistics alone?), but it's a lot of work to manually cut out the useful bits just for some results.
And the TXT and XLS reports are a joke. 'Nuf said.
Keep it obfuscated at the physical level: I don't care.
But some sort of abstracted model or a report builder that allows me a little more freedom to create reports that people actually want to look at would be lovely.
I understand why they obfuscate the repository, but it makes for reports that no one likes.
I have tried in the past to get IA results out and in a format that doesn't mean getting laughed at by my clients (2000 page PDF for Summary Statistics alone?), but it's a lot of work to manually cut out the useful bits just for some results.
And the TXT and XLS reports are a joke. 'Nuf said.
Keep it obfuscated at the physical level: I don't care.
But some sort of abstracted model or a report builder that allows me a little more freedom to create reports that people actually want to look at would be lovely.