duration-field specifier

[Francis J. Lacoste]

On lun, 2002-11-11 at 01:48, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> What would be great is to have a way to force the session_time-total
> in hours, because in the real world often duration is sold in hours
> (ISPs for example :-):

Yes! Yes! Yes!

I was exactly starting to think of the same thing. One of the biggest
problem with the LR_SCALE_ configuration variable is that the unit
(Gigs, Megs, K, H, D, etc.) is based on the value. This means that you
can get in the same table Megs, Gigs, K and bytes which is an awful
things to do since the numbers cannot be compared directly anymore.

> 
>   lire:timegroup0                                       session_time-total
>   ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------
>   June                                                              204.0h
>   July                                                              204.0h
>   August                                                            223.2h
>   September                                                         235.2h
>   October                                                           283.2h
>   November                                                           24.0h
>   ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------
> 
>  <lire:report-calc-spec>
>   <lire:timegroup field="time" period="1M">
>    <lire:sum name="session_time-total" field="session_time" unit="hours"/>
>   </lire:timegroup>
>  </lire:report-calc-spec>
> 

What I propose is to have a default unit (which would replace the
current LR_SCALE_ variables) and make it overridable in each report
specification (using a unit attribute like you suggested).

Thanks for the suggestion!

-- 
Francis J. Lacoste
francis at Contre.COM
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