RE: Web management reports

[Martha Driscoll <driscoll at noblenet dot org>]

I like MilStats as well.  I use it each month to create spreadsheets of
holdings by itype, number of items added by itype, number of patrons
added, number of total registered borrowers, and number of items purged 
the previous month (a purge that is done in a batch from a review file).  
It's great to be able to easily move the data into Excel.

My biggest complaint with MilStats is that it does not do circulation 
statistics.  MilStats works off records, either the entire database, a 
range, or a review file.  Circulation statistics come from a file on the 
system that Web Management Reports works from.  I've done some perl 
scripts to run circulation statistics using the raw data file rather than 
dealing with Web Management Reports.  

MilStats is well thought out and clearly a generation ahead of Web
Management Reports.  I hope some development time goes into Web Management
Reports or a replacement.  I submit several enhancement requests each year
for WMR (task scheduler!), but I truly think it needs a re-write.  

-- 
Martha Driscoll, Systems Manager
North of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE)
driscoll at noblenet dot org
Ph: 978-777-8844  Fax: 978-750-8472

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 Julie dot Rosinsky at snc dot edu wrote:

> Jeff,
> 
> Like Paul I am new to the statistics function.Can you give me any 
> pointers as to how you use it, what circ stats can be gathered and 
> why you prefer this over web management reports? 
> 
> TIA
> Julie
>