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epic: enable the creation of IBCS tables

Open machow opened this issue 3 months ago • 1 comments

The International Business Communication Standards (IBCS) Association has a number of templates for reporting business financials. A user on discord asked whether we can produce these.

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I suspect we're fairly close, but would need to complete a few pieces, like:

  • Summaries: a way to include summaries (related to #172. But we could also allow people to bring their own summaries (either via styles, or some summary frame API, where people bring their own aggregations).
  • Plot: Waterfall sparkplot (seems very doable; but we should just roll this into its own library as a POC)
  • Group labels: what part of the table structure is "Gross Profit" (a label for the summary row?).
    • This means that rows are grouped, the but the group name is not shown
    • Could be that when adding a summary, user can indicate "put the group name in the summary row"
  • Vertical gutters between columns (could be made by styling vertical borders wider and transparent)
  • Bottom borders: Thicker lines for the 2014, 2015 columns on the bottom (is this table_border_bottom in tab_styles()?)

machow avatar Apr 25 '24 16:04 machow