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User-editable data which can be used in metric formulas
It would be useful if you allowed administrators to create data (with a default value) in the application and then use those data points as user-controllable constants in metric formulas. The users could easily view and change the values of the constants separately from other users. This would support simple "what if" analysis.
For example a constant could represent the "run rate" for a process, e.g. widgets/day, by widget type. You could calculate a reporting metric called "days of run" which is the number of widgets divided by the type's run rate. Then a user could input different run rates for different types and see how the numbers in their reports are affected.
I guess what I'm suggesting is data that can be created and edited at the user level.
For example a constant could represent the "run rate" for a process, e.g. widgets/day, by widget type. You could calculate a reporting metric called "days of run" which is the number of widgets divided by the type's run rate. Then a user could input different run rates for different types and see how the numbers in their reports are affected.
I guess what I'm suggesting is data that can be created and edited at the user level.
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Inappropriate?Hi Tom,
thank you for sharing this idea with us. We are designing a prompting mechanism that allows defining a variables in reports and metrics. These variables need to be defined when you execute a report. We call these variables prompts. The prompts can be passed to report execution mechanism either implicitly (via some parameters associated with user or user session or project) or explicitly (user specify them at report execution time). I believe that such mechanism would fulfill your needs. I hope that we will have this mechanism in production in next three months.
Please let me know what you think.
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