The general settings of a report definition are common to all report types and specify how a report is created and where it is stored.
Setting name |
Description |
Output format |
Defines which file format will be used to store the generated reports. You can choose between following formats: •PDF: Adobe Portable document Format Version 1.6 •DOCX: Renders a report in Microsoft Word 2007 format (also known as OpenXML) - it is a zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for representing word processing documents. |
Split content |
This setting can be used to split the report into multiple files. Following options are available: •Do not split: The report will be saved as single file •Split by feature: Each feature in a report will be saved in a separate file. •Split by observation: Each observation will be saved as a separate file. |
Table 1: Settings affecting the report generation
Setting name |
Description |
Save in output files |
If selected the Application Server will store the created reports in the Output files. |
Table 2: Settings affecting the publishing of report files to Application Server Output files
Setting name |
Description |
Publish to FTP |
If selected the Application Server will publish the created reports to an FTP Server |
FTP Server |
Address of the FTP Server (DNS or IP) |
Port |
The port of the FTP Server |
Passive |
If set advices the Application Server to user passive FTP mode when connecting to the FTP Server |
Timeout |
The timeout used for connecting to the FTP server. |
Username |
The username for authenticating against the FTP server |
Password |
The password for authenticating against the FTP server. |
Path |
The path on the FTP Server where the report files shall be copied to. |
Table 3: Settings for copying the report files to an FTP server
Setting name |
Description |
Publish to document folder feature |
If selected the Application Server will publish the created files to a document folder feature. |
Folder feature |
The document folder feature in which the report files will be published. |
Use versioning |
If selected following logic will be used when publishing files to the document folder: If a document with the same name as the new report document is already in the document folder the new report document will be published as new version of this document feature. If not selected each report will be published as a new document feature. |
Table 4: Settings for copying the report files to a document folder feature
Setting name |
Description |
Name template |
This text template will be used as for determining the filenames for created report files. The text template defines only the filename without extension. For more information on how this text template is used refer to chapter Text templates for report file names. |
Table 5: Settings influencing the naming of the report files
Setting name |
Description |
Include erroneous |
If set the reports will include observations marked as erroneous. If not set these observations will not be shown in the report. |
Table 6: Miscellaneous settings
