Report Templates and Report Designs

Reports are built from Rich Text Format (RTF) templates which can be authored using a word processor (Microsoft Word has a plug-in available to aid the design process). The RTF templates are combined with the XML data provided by the data source to form report designs.

Like data sources, the report designs can have filters to be applied to further refine the data set, either as fixed values, or values to be supplied at runtime.

The Report Template and Report Design records are located in the Supplier Evaluation Admin area.

For details of the reports supplied as part of the suite of core reports, see Appendix: Report Layouts. The supplied templates can be adapted to form custom variants, or new custom reports can be created. For guidance on the creation of RTF report templates, see Appendix: Designing RTF Templates.