If you want to edit or change
reports, let me give you some basic information which will help you customize
them as per your choice.
Our report templates are based
on jasper reports. For more information on jasper reports, refer to the
following :
Our templates are populated via
DQL queries in the template which are processed through a custom
datasource(refer to the tutorials to understand better) that we provide to our
template.
You can use the iReport designer
to edit the report templates. The iReport designer version you have to use will
depend on the version of the jasper reports jar that is being used in your
setup.
To find out the jar version,
look for "jasperreports" within the Documentum\<jboss
version>\server\DctmServer_MethodServer\deploy\ServerApps.ear\DmMethods.war\WEB-INF\lib.
The version number stated there
will determine what iReport Designer is compatible with EPFM.eg.
jasperreports-3.7.4.jar will use iReport Designer 3.7.4.
To edit the template, you can
export the template to any temp location. It will be exported in the form of a
.ecsfr file. You can simply open this file using any archiving/compression(like
winzip or winrar) tool to view its contents.
Look for the .jrxml file within
the .ecsfr file.for eg. "Late-PendingTransmittals_001.jrxml". The
.jrxml file is the report template which is populated with data.It is basically
the design of the report.
It is this .jrxml file that you
will need to edit using the iReport Designer.
The iReport designer will
basically have to be used for designing the layout of the report. Refer to
existing report templates to see how they use DQLs to populate themselves.
Once you've created a proper
report template, package in a .ecsfr file(basically zip it using winzip/winrar
and change the extension to .ecsfr), once this is done, import the report
template.
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