The Reports Module in dRofus contains a rich set wide range of predefined reports , ready to use. This is the most common and simple way to get data from dRofus , PDF reports and schedules. These provide the simplest and most commonly used method to get dRofus data to a PDF.
In some situations however you need greater might require greater control over the data used or the layout in of the reports, or you might simply want to create a new type of report that does not yet exist. For
In these cases this document aids you in using the Ecrion XF Designer tool to create reports from dRofusthe following Wiki pages can help you with using the "Ecrion Design Suite Publisher" tool to design or modify reports. You could use another tool if you prefer, as long as you could use XML1 as a data source, but we have chosen to use XF Designer because use Publisher as it is, in our opinion, a high quality tool that is powerful and simple to use and has great support of the XML standards that dRofus is using. It also gives you the ability to export the final report layout for importing back into dRofus so everybody, without XF Designer, could generate a report the whole team can generate reports in dRofus using the new layout.
XF Designer As Publisher is based on the XML standard and it would be a great benefit it is of advantage to have some knowledge of XML technologies such as XPATH.