In the sorting tab for event participation reports, I can't sort by role or status. Even those these are built-in fields that it seems obvious people would want sort by, are not in the list of columns- I'm a newbie user, so I suspect it's something easy and I just don't see it??? I'd like the report to be sorted first by status, then by role, but I'd take at least one of two. Please advise, thanks!
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Thanks for the prompt responses! So my take-home is: It's not just me missing something simple, you actually can't sort even basic event participation reports by participant role or participant event status within Civi. Sigh. As I'm not a developer, I don't understand the other options, but they look very informative and I trust others will benefit from them.– CiviLearnerJan 17, 2019 at 19:47
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The default reporting does not cater for sorting status and role. One way to achieve this is by writing code as Pradeep suggested. Another way is to export the report data to Excel (csv) and do the sorting in Excel.
answered Jan 16, 2019 at 7:54
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+1 because the question asker described themselves as "newbie user" and this answer takes that into account. Jan 16, 2019 at 17:15
Existing report in CiviCRM for participant doesn't provide sorting based on participant status and role. Probably best solution would be to add some code to implement hook_civicrm_alterReportVar through extension and define sorting fields in $var['civicrm_participant]['order_bys'] when $varType == 'columns'.
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Pradeep
answered Jan 16, 2019 at 0:42
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This answer assumes that someone could write code and understand the report class. There is no alternative. Jan 16, 2019 at 7:52
Similar to Pradeep's answer, yet another option is to clone the report and modify it - see https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/extensions/civix/#generate-report specifically
civix generate:report --copy
You could then publish your report as a new extension or submit a PR to enhance the core report.
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This looks like where I need to be headed! But I can't yet understand it In the the link [here][1], I wouldn't know where I would even type "civix generate:report --help" to activate this. I know SQL well, and will need to be doing lots of modifying to Civi's reports (or connect to the underlying data and use Access or Tableau). In order to understand these answers, is PHP what I would need to learn? (The list of [useful skills][2] is long) [1]: docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/extensions/civix/… [2]: docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/basics/skills Jan 17, 2019 at 19:51