This PR fixes 2 issues that were picked up by users for the Scheduled Data Explorer Report automation script and a couple of small improvements to better match the format of manual data explorer query results.
The first issue is that within result_to_markdown the colrender contains null values, and we are currently checking length (previously treated as a packed array but it is actually a sparse array). Therefore we can check if the current index of the array is null rather than checking the size of the array.
The second issue addresses the blank query_params field. When the data explorer script does not require any params to be passed in via the automation script then it will have a nil value, however it should be defaulted to {} within the plugin.
To improve formatting the markdown table for PMs is now aligned to left and where values are substituted (for example user_id becomes username) we then include the id within brackets, for example:
user_id becomes username (user_id)
This feature enables admins to create reports automatically based on a recurring schedule.
It introduces a new automation script that includes the new email_group_user field added to discourse-automation, along with a query_id and query_params to pass in parameters to the existing data explorer query.
The output of the report will be sent via pm (as a markdown table) to the recipients entered within the automation script.
The automation (supports individual users, email addresses and groups).
David Battersby