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Does CiviCRM need reports to be useful?
If so what would those reports look like?
Call sheets. Contact name, city (primaryLocation), state(primaryLocation), phone(primaryLocation)
Mailing report. Contact name, full postal address(primaryLocation)
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Hide/Show CommentsFeb 09, 2005
Charlie Lindahl
Event report.
List of how many attended (total), how many signed up with contact information, how many were expected at the event, total dollars collected (if charged for).
Mar 04, 2006
Donald A. Lobo
We currently dont do events, though its high up there on our list of useful functionality. Once we do that, i suspect the above will be part of event functionality
Mar 04, 2006
John Fulton
Doesn't need reports to be useful, but does need reports to be successful, or widely adopted IMHO. I'd like to see the ability to create and save report screens, also produce graphs w/ imagemagik.
Many of the nonprofit's decision makers I've talked to who could really use CiviCRM seem to be wowed by Salesforce's dashboard aproach to reports. So something along the same line would be very helpful.
Mar 04, 2006
Donald A. Lobo
Agreed, i think having flexible, configurable reporting is a must-have before CiviCRM is widely adopted. I suspect we will use another open source reporting engine to provide this functionality. I think there are some good open source reporting engines that we can and will integrate with
Mar 04, 2006
Elin Waring
I've been talking to our development person and the reports she wants for sure are:
contibutions in a date range by gift level (they use something like 10 bins)
Summary of giving by gift level, this year and last year by the same date.
Summary of giving by gift level, this year and last year by the same date by fund.
Summary of gifts this year nd last year by giver category (trustee, friend etc)
Last year but not this year list.
Pledges made, pledges that are near their due dates, pledges that are past their due dates.
Fiscal ver
Mar 04, 2006
Donald A. Lobo
Our search screen gives a fair amount of the above information. (the first three items)
We currently dont handle the last 3 items but intend to do so in a future release