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Dynamic Reports

• The tcl directory contains the following:

— The Tcl methods available for creating new reports

— Thesourcecodefortheexistingreports

Theinformation presentedin the remainderofthischapterassumesyouhaveareasonably

thorough understanding of both HTML and Tcl scripting.

Creating or Modifying a Report

You can modify an EPICenter report HTML file in any HTML editor, such as Microsoft

FrontPage.

You can modifythe existing HTML files to change the look and feelof the report, your

icons, etc. The

device_summary.html file is a good example.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">

<html>

<head>

content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<title>Simple Report</title>

</head>

<BODY bgcolor="#ffffff" marginwidth="20" marginheight="0" leftmargin="20"

topmargin="0">

<H2>Device Reports</H2>

</TD></TR>

Reports are available for the following devices in EPICenter.<br>

Report generated on <extr>clock format [clock seconds]</extr></TD></TR>

<TR valign="bottom"><TD><P><img src="images/green.gif" width=650px

height=3px></P>

</TD></TR>

</TABLE>