User`s guide

13 Create a Report Program

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Create an HTML Template

Use one of these approaches to create an HTML template for generating a report.

• Use mlreportgen.dom.Document.createTemplate to create a copy of the DOM

API default HTML template that you can then customize. For example:

mlreportgen.dom.Document.createTemplate('mytemplate','html');

• Use an existing HTML template (for example, a report template for your

organization) and customize the template to use with the DOM API.

• Create an HTML template from scratch.

Edit a Zipped HTML Template

To edit a zipped HTML template, unzip it into a subfolder of the current folder, using the

unzipTemplate function. For example, to unzip files for a template called mytemplate:

unzipTemplate('mytemplate')

To repackage a template after you edit it, use the zipTemplate function. For example,

to package the mytemplate.htmx template in a subfolder called mytemplate, in the

current folder:

zipTemplate('mytemplate.htmtx')

If you do not want to use the current folder, you can specify a path with the

unzipTemplate and zipTemplate functions.