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This page documents the 1.4 (latest stable) release. Documentation for other releases can be found here.
Trac Reports
The Trac reports module provides a simple, yet powerful reporting facility for presenting information about tickets from the Trac database.
Rather than have its own report format, TracReports relies on standard SQL SELECT statements for custom report definition.
Creating Custom Reports
Creating a custom report requires knowing and using the SQL query language.
A report is basically a single named SQL query, executed and presented by Trac. Reports can be viewed and created from a custom SQL expression directly in from the web interface.
Typically, a report consists of a SELECT-expression from the 'ticket' table, using the available columns and sorting the way you want it.
Ticket columns
The ticket table has the following columns:
- id
- time
- changetime
- component
- severity
- priority
- owner
- reporter
- cc
- url
- version — Version of the project does this ticket pertains to.
- milestone
- status
- resolution
- summary
- description
See TracTickets for a detailed description of the column fields.
all active tickets, sorted by priority and time
Example: All active tickets, sorted by priority and time
SELECT id AS ticket, status, severity, priority, owner, time as created, summary FROM ticket WHERE status IN ('new', 'assigned', 'reopened') ORDER BY priority, time
Advanced Reports: Custom Formatting
Trac is also capable of more advanced reports, including custom layouts, result grouping and user-defined CSS styles. To create such reports, we'll use specialized SQL statements to control the output of the Trac report engine.
Special Columns
To format reports, TracReports looks for 'magic' column names in the query result. These 'magic' names are processed and affect the layout and style of the final report.
Automatically formatted columns
- ticket — Ticket ID number. Becomes a hyperlink to that ticket.
- created, modified, date, time — Format cell as a date and/or time.
- description — Ticket description field, parsed through the wiki engine.
Example:
SELECT id as ticket, created, status, summary FROM ticket
Custom formatting columns
Columns whose name begins and ends with '' (Example: color) are assumed to be formatting hints, affecting the appearance of the row.
- _group_ — Group results based on values in this column. Each group will have its own header and table.
- _color_ — Should be a numeric value ranging from 1 to 5 to select a pre-defined row color. Typically used to color rows by issue priority.
- _style_ —- A custom CSS style expression to use for the current row.
Example: List active tickets, grouped by milestone, colored by priority
SELECT p.value AS __color__, t.milestone AS __group__, (CASE owner WHEN 'daniel' THEN 'font-weight: bold; background: red;' ELSE '' END) AS __style__, t.id AS ticket, summary FROM ticket t,enum p WHERE t.status IN ('new', 'assigned', 'reopened') AND p.name=t.priority AND p.type='priority' ORDER BY t.milestone, p.value, t.severity, t.time
Note: A table join is used to match ticket priorities with their numeric representation from the enum table.
Changing layout of report rows
By default, all columns on each row are display on a single row in the HTML report, possibly formatted according to the descriptions above. However, it's also possible to create multi-line report entries.
- column_ — Break row after this. By appending an underscore ('_') to the column name, the remaining columns will be be continued on a second line.
- _column_ — Full row. By adding an underscore ('_') both at the beginning and the end of a column name, the data will be shown on a separate row.
- _column — Hide data. Prepending an underscore ('_') to a column name instructs Trac to hide the contents from the HTML output. This is useful fore information to be visible only if downloaded in other formats (like CSV or RSS/XML).
Example: List active tickets, grouped by milestone, colored by priority, with description and multi-line layout
SELECT p.value AS __color__, t.milestone AS __group__, (CASE owner WHEN 'daniel' THEN 'font-weight: bold background: red;' ELSE '' END) AS __style__, t.id AS ticket, summary AS summary_, -- ## Break line here component,version, severity, milestone, status, owner, time AS created, changetime AS modified, -- ## Dates are formatted description AS _description_, -- ## Uses a full row changetime AS _changetime, reporter AS _reporter -- ## Hidden from HTML output FROM ticket t,enum p WHERE t.status IN ('new', 'assigned', 'reopened') AND p.name=t.priority AND p.type='priority' ORDER BY t.milestone, p.value, t.severity, t.time
Sample Reports
status and summary for all tickets
SELECT id as ticket, status, summary FROM ticket
all active tickets, sorted by priority and time
SELECT id AS ticket, status, severity, priority, owner, time as created, summary FROM ticket WHERE status IN ('new', 'assigned', 'reopened') ORDER BY priority, time
active tickets, grouped by milestone and sorted by priority
SELECT id AS ticket, milestone, status, severity, priority, component, owner, summary FROM ticket WHERE status IN ('new', 'assigned', 'reopened') ORDER BY milestone, (CASE priority WHEN 'highest' THEN 0 WHEN 'high' THEN 1 WHEN 'normal' THEN 2 WHEN 'low' THEN 3 ELSE 4 END), severity, time
See also: TracTickets, TracGuide