Exporting a Report to HTML

Last Updated: 08/12/2016 Introduced in Verision: 2.0

A report can be exported to PDF, HTML, or Excel format.  To export a report to HTML, while viewing the report, click the Print Report button, select the HTML option and click Print.  The report is exported using the current view and can then be downloaded and opened in .html format.

Example

The goal of this example is to:

  1. Create a report.
  2. Run the report.
  3. Export it in .html format.
  4. View the exported report in HTML

To begin, navigate to a Designer Folder, click the Create Report button and select Create Report.

createReport                       

Give the report a name and click Ok to open it in the Report Designer.

 nameReport

To begin building the report, add a data source.

In the Toolbox Panel, in the category Data Sources > Common, drag a Folder Data Source component to the Sources list.

 dragFolderDataSource

Next, add some columns to the report.

Expand the Folder Data Source category in the Toolbox Panel and drag an Entity NameFolder Type Name, and Nesting Level component to the workspace.

 dragColumns

This completes the report.  Save it and close the Report Designer.

To export the report data to HTML, first run the report by clicking the report’s thumbnail and selecting Run Report from the Action menu.

 runReport

Select the Print Report button to export the report.

printReport 

In the Export Page pop-up window, select the HTML option and click Print.

exportToHTML 

Select the Open Exported Page link.

openExportedPage 

The exported report downloads in HTML.

The HTML file containing the report appears in a new browser window.

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