# Project Status Reporting idea

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/project-status-reporting-idea/376>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Created:** [October 23, 2019, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/project-status-reporting-idea/376 "2019-10-23T23:40:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![rickcogley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/rickcogley/32/274_2.png) [@rickcogley](https://community.fibery.io/u/rickcogley)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/project-status-reporting-idea/376/1 "2019-10-23T23:40:11Z")

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Fibery wiki pages would be very useful for project status reporting, if you can:

- insert a “live” view of tables, boards, timelines (currently, you can insert only a link to an entity, not the actual data), and maybe this is a optional “snapshot” baked in at the time of report assembly, so as to preserve report integrity for later reference
- have a way to make a template version of such a report, so you can spend time building it once, then just quickly re-create, tweak and send
- print to PDF, provided you’re careful with the width of the live views, because stakeholders generally can’t be bothered to log into a system as a user/viewer

In my case I would like such a document to have these sections:

1. Status summary from last period
2. High level status, like a RAG report, on sub-projects, GIST goal step-projects and so on, showing what’s green, amber and red, and the reason.
3. List of risks and mitigations
4. List of dated decisions
5. Filtered task status, as appropriate
6. probably others…but you get the idea

There are some ad hoc aspects to it, but mostly, the above is representable in data, a kind of “assembly” of all the different aspects of a project that you’d want to show to a stakeholder, when managing a project.

This kind of periodical assembly is painful for PMs so anything that makes it easy is really gold.

Such a tweak to docs would allow for various methods to be represented, and allow adjustments for project stakeholders who insist on having _this_ info or _that_ info on a status report.

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**Author:** ![rickcogley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/rickcogley/32/274_2.png) [@rickcogley](https://community.fibery.io/u/rickcogley)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/project-status-reporting-idea/376/2 "2019-10-23T23:47:56Z")

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Somewhat related to: [Visydrop chart in Wiki](https://community.fibery.io/t/visydrop-chart-in-wiki/67)

Confirmed that you can insert a link to a vizydrop chart/table, but not see the actual thing.

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**Author:** ![rickcogley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/rickcogley/32/274_2.png) [@rickcogley](https://community.fibery.io/u/rickcogley)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2019, 2:34am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/project-status-reporting-idea/376/3 "2019-10-24T02:34:34Z")

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Ok, it’s not ideal, but if you can represent whatever in an image, you can drag it to a wiki page to have it appear. Fortunately Fibery tables print to PDF well.

However you cannot drag a PDF to a wiki page and have it appear properly.

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**Author:** ![rickcogley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/rickcogley/32/274_2.png) [@rickcogley](https://community.fibery.io/u/rickcogley)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 8:02am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/project-status-reporting-idea/376/4 "2019-10-25T08:02:31Z")

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[Coda.io](http://Coda.io) 2.0 just got released so I looked at it.

- The whole thing is document-centric, so having views of data show in the document are the point, but, printing is, erm, kind of possible but not great. Printing Fibery Wiki pages “just works” in the usual way, and they look good, if only we could get data to show up as a dynamic updating view, and/or, a “snapshot” of a view, Fibery would be perfect for those of us who unfortunately have to give some output to project stakeholders…
- Interesting per-maker pricing
- doc to doc data link is finally possible in their v2 but it’s in the more expensive plans
- data tables are currently “richer” in that, you can write formulas to colorize cells and so on (I think I read this is in the plans for Fibery), and there are some advanced controls

> [@Visydrop chart in Wiki](https://community.fibery.io/t/visydrop-chart-in-wiki/67/2):
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> @rickcogley Yes, this is a good idea. We are going to add a possibility to insert all Views into wiki. For example, it will be possible to insert List of Bugs, or Kanban Board, or Calendar, or Chart.

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**Author:** ![CV304](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@CV304](https://community.fibery.io/u/CV304)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/project-status-reporting-idea/376/5 "2022-09-12T13:19:58Z")

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New user here- just found Fibery via the comparison between Coda and Fibery. The difference is amazing. Incredibly powerful system.

Tom’s description of a status report is exactly what I’m trying to do right now. I’m creating a back end for managing an architectural firm and its design projects. IIf successful ’d even consider marketing it to other firms as a replacement for their task and project management software.

What I’ve found is that you can’t seem to embed views of tables inside a Doc like you can in Coda. In fact I’ve had trouble printing Docs in Fibery. I need a method to combine filtered data from multiple tables into a clean doc that can be printed or pasted into an email.

Some minor pain points but could potentially keep me from moving any further on the project.

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/project-status-reporting-idea/376/6 "2022-09-12T15:48:45Z")

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It is possible to embed a table view in a Page (which is a beta version of the next generation of Documents).  
You’ll need to enable it as an experimental feature though:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/9/9fd20f55e1063973b500b04816f648677ae58886.png)

The plan is for all views to be supported within rich text documents eventually.

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**Author:** ![CV304](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@CV304](https://community.fibery.io/u/CV304)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 10:33pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/project-status-reporting-idea/376/7 "2022-09-12T22:33:03Z")

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Will check that out tonight. That is a game changer.
