Hi! New to Tellico, and so far very much liking what I'm finding. Starting to organize a book collection, and I'm curious about report generation. Specifically, is is possible to generate a report for a specific genre or other "subset" of a collection? Or should I be making separate collections for each category of book I might want a separate report about? If the latter, is is possible to move entries from one collection to another?

Cheers, and thanks for an awesome piece of software?

CY

I haven't figured out how to properly write an XSL report sheet, but I did find a workaround for this situation in case anyone is interested:

I have things categorized by Genre in my database - I can use the Genre grouping to list all items in a particular group, select them, export selected to xml, then import the xml file into a new tellico database. Presto, I can now do an image report of just that one Genre. (have to make sure to select the "export the images" box when exporting to xml)

starseeker wrote:Specifically, is is possible to generate a report for a specific genre or other "subset" of a collection?

I think the workaround you described is the only way at the moment. Maybe I should add a report option to just use the selected entries.

starseeker wrote:Or should I be making separate collections for each category of book I might want a separate report about? If the latter, is is possible to move entries from one collection to another?

There's no easy way to move entries from one collection file to another, without just exporting and importing. I wouldn't separate files by genre, that might give you headaches later.

starseeker wrote:I can use the Genre grouping to list all items in a particular group, select them, export selected to xml, then import the xml file into a new tellico database.

Tellico can also just open the xml file directly.

Starseeker,

I too very much would like multiple level for reporting, for coins. I can use filters to select just the coins in the country, denomination and type I want. However that leads to a lot of filters for just the US and just the 20th century.

Multiple levels would make reports more understandable because the info. for coins of a specific country, denomination and type can be entered for a group of entries. This mignt work for antologies for book collectors too.