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Text output formats
A text report is the simplest type of report to generate. A SELECT statement (generated in ASP code) defines the report query. The Command property of the Reporting COM object executes the query string and builds the report resultset. The GetData object property extracts data points from the query’s resultset. The data points of interest are integrated with HTML (via ASP code) to form a tabular report layout. You determine the data points, their location in the table, the table column headings, and so on.
Remember that reports derived from a Customer Defined Database (CDD) automatically deactivate internal filtering performed by the InForm application. Thus, the resultset includes information from all sites—not just those sites the user running the report has privileges to access.
In addition to a simple tabular format, two other text output alternatives are possible using the HTML and XML properties of the Reporting COM object:
- HTML property—Displays the entire resultset as a table.
- XML property—Returns the complete resultset as an XML string. To display XML data in conjunction with HTML requires that you parse the XML string through the properties and methods of the XML Document Object Model provided through your browser. For more information, see the documentation for your browser.
