Printer/iframe friendly reports.

Szymon Kurzacz · Sep 6, 2012

Can we have "my reports"/"pilot reports" and pilot roster available as "printer friendly" version - that mean without most logos, menus and other stuff with only short information about being part of airchild website?

I would like to make some thing simmilar to my colleague. He uses eurobook tables for flights from past, current bookings and some stats inside iframes. I would like to put my pesonal flight reports ach0303 inside such iframe on my website to keep track of my flights (option to make some universal stats of number, length etc for this year and totals would be nice to have in simmilar way as eurobook have).

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Both my pages are based on personal flight database kept on my website, where each flight is added manually... And i'm tired to add flights by hand... On ohther hand i could try to implement xacars pirep system by myself on my webpage (i have all pireps saved offline), unfortunately xacars may not save in pirep flight distance (miles)...

Any toughts?

Ricardo Rementería Troncoso · Sep 6, 2012

I do not get it.
You can copy a whole page from "my reports" - "Pilot reports", paste it in your own spreadsheet and print what you want, how you want, make your own reports, etc., etc. The last column is the distance flied, in nautical miles. The same data can be used in a database (easier), and the database can be manipulated and it can be published in your WWW-site.

Saludos,

Remen

Peter Schindler · Sep 7, 2012

Szymon Kurzacz said:
Can we have "my reports"/"pilot reports" and pilot roster available as "printer friendly" version [.....] I would like to put my pesonal flight reports ach0303 inside such iframe on my website .....

Well, there's two approaches to this. One is a "print version" which is usually done by providing different CSS style sheets, one for the screen and one for the printer. Thats what we did with the company plan, for example. It's a lot of work (and all printers are a little different), so I'd only do this if really needed.
The other thing is an alternate version of those pages, removing all unnecessary content and formatting, and provide it through a personal URL*. That's possible and, on first thought, shouldn't be too much work.
I kinda like the idea and will think about it, but you also know my delays for site updates, Szymon

In the meantime, what Ricardo wrote is true. Since they're all html tables, you should be able to copy and paste it to Excel and it should show correctly in the spreadsheet. At least this works with MS Word.

* personally, I would favor a data output with XML because that would be the most flexible solution. Do you think you could process this? :think:

Szymon Kurzacz · Sep 8, 2012

Ricardo Rementería Troncoso said:
I do not get it.
You can copy a whole page from "my reports" - "Pilot reports", paste it in your own spreadsheet and print what you want, how you want, make your own reports, etc., etc. The last column is the distance flied, in nautical miles. The same data can be used in a database (easier), and the database can be manipulated and it can be published in your WWW-site.

Saludos,

Remen

There is no problem to manually copy/paste., but i want more automaion. My target is first to share my flights on website. I already have manual database, but i want at least some automation. I do not need all flights on website, but last few is good enough.

Peter Schindler said:
In the meantime, what Ricardo wrote is true. Since they're all html tables, you should be able to copy and paste it to Excel and it should show correctly in the spreadsheet. At least this works with MS Word.

* personally, I would favor a data output with XML because that would be the most flexible solution. Do you think you could process this? :think:

XML parser will take some time to build (hour or something) but will give option to fully integrate with website without iframes, if xml file will be available without login and from outside server. Last flight made with that form will give You 100% control what You want share with others (with little more coding even with sorting option). And showing only last few with link "to see more click here" will direct at least 1 person from each 1,000,000,000,000,000 visiting my site each millenium to ACH site

XML sounds nice. thnx Peter.

On other hand i'm currently totally out of free time for at least few more weeks, new site may be open on 1st Jan... who knows...

BTW. is there any "fast" option to get exact numbers of flown hours, miles, flights from past year without copy/paste each from 200 pages of sent pireps? We can roughly read values from past year from statistics, but that does not tell exact numbers. I've made rough report about our fleet and other stuff for 2011 some time ago, and i probably will do same stuff for 2012...