Applications with recorded data

Show a map for your table

You may want to add a map to your online table edition form. In such a case, there are some rules to respect to get the map functionning properly.

From the Distiller module, click on the Open in manager button to create a new project using the table used to store the data recorded in the field. In case it does not appear directly in the Distiller, please use the refresh button to get up-to-date information about every geographic table within the database.

From the Manager, save your project under a name respecting the following syntax: <schema>___<table>, where <schema> should be replaced by the schema name (in your case sample ) and table should be replace by your table name (in your case, wsxpoints). Then, define the parameters to make your layer appearing the way want with the activated capabilities you need. After the settings for your project is over, publish it as any other project by allowing, at least, giving the user groups permision to edit the table.

Now, if you access again the MapMint table client module, you should get an associated map which zoom on the element you have selected.

Create report for your data

Depending on the type of your data you may want to produce a report. MapMint relies on LibreOffice server which is responsible for generating the reports in various formats. MapMint uses its own templating system fully compatible with Open Document Text (odt) format. For producing reports for a table or an elemnt, MapMint will use an odt template file, which is a very basic odt file, and will replace every field found in the template with the expected value(s).

Let us suppose that we want to get a table showing the last 10 items recorded and a diagram showing the repartition of record amongst the catogories.

First of all, you have to create an odt file using your local LibreOffice installation. Then add a table to the document with 2 rows and 2 columns. Then set Title and Description in the first row of the table. Right-click on the table, in the contextual menu, click on the Table properties. Here, set the table name as [_listing1_] and press OK.

Now, we will add a digram, define it as circular and give a name by using the Object… itemfrom the contextual menu appearing when you right-click on the diagram in your document. Here, choose the name [_diag1_] and press OK.

Finally, you will need to link your report with your table to configure the way you want the table and diagram to be completed.

To do so, go to the MapMint table administration interface, select your table configuration from the list then click on the Report tab to access the report settings.

Here, you can set the following parameters:

Title	the tab title
Select element	check if the report production depends on a selected element
Clause	the SQL where condition (true in case no condition)
Groups	the user groups allowed to produce such a report
Document model	the odt template

Once you have uploaded your document model, by selecting your local odt file then pressing the Import button, you shall see every field you have defined in your template. So, in your case the diag1 and listing1.

For every field defined in your template you can define a type and a value to be included in the report.

In your case, the diag1 type should be Diagram and the value the following SQL query:

(select
  $q$ '{$q$ || '''' || a::text || '''' || $q$, '{"Categories"}',  $q$ || '''' || b::text || ''''
  || $q$}'$q$
from
 (
  select
   array( select name||$q$ $q$ from sample.categories
      where id in (select distinct category from sample.wsxpoints) ) as a,
  array(select
          array[count(*)] from sample.wsxpoints
   group by category order by category) as b
 ) as v)

For the listing1 field, set the type to SQL Table and the value to the following SQL query:

(select ARRAY[
 ARRAY['Name ','Description ']] ||
 array((select array[name::text||$q$ $q$]||array[description::text||$q$ $q$] from sample.wsxpoints order by id desc limit 5))
 )

You should press the Save button for your report settings to be saved. Then, as presented in the screen shot below, you should see a new tab, named as you have entitled your report, appearing from the MapMint table client module. If you access to it, you can then press Run to ask the server to generate the report. At the end of its processing, it will return a link to the pdf, odt, doc, and html version of the produced report.

Conclusion

In this final section, you have leanrt how to add a map to your MapMint table client module and to produce reports out of the recorded data.

You should now be able to set-up the MapMint table module from any MapMint instance. Then, create tables, when required, and configure edition forms for theses tables. You know that it is easy and reliable to use MapMint4ME for data collection in conjunction with a MapMint server. The final touch was the map view from table client module and the reporting about the data collected.

Hoping you had great time reading this material.