1. Report Designers Guide
  2. Layout Editor Templates

Layout Editor Templates

The layout editor in the application provides an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface for creating pixel-perfect reports with PDF, RTF, Excel, PowerPoint, and HTML output. The layout template files you create with this tool have an .xpt extension. The layout editor tool is the only editing tool that provides dynamic HTML output. Users can interact with this output in a browser, for example by sorting, applying filters, and so on.

Prerequisite

Make sure that sample data is generated from the data model that your report is using.

Using the Layout Editor

To configure XPT templates:

  1. Select the report in the OAS catalog and click Edit.
  2. In the report editor, click Edit to update a template. Or, click Add New Layout and select a template type under the Create Layout section.
  3. Create or edit the layout.
  4. Click Save to save the layout to the report definition.