Example of creating and using a template
To create a new template, open a file with the .rep extension in any available text editor (for example, Notepad) and make some changes. This gives you an opportunity to customize output reports to suit all your needs.
For example, on printing notes, to output information about the note creation time, you need to open the notes.rep file (C:\Program files\WinOrganizer\Reports\notes.rep).
Contents of the source file:
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[%%ReportType=Notes%%]
[%%ReportCaption="Notes"%%]
[%%ReportDescription=""%%]
[%%HEADER%%]
<html>
<head>
<title>%%ReportTitle%%</title>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=%%Charset%%">
</head>
<BODY bgcolor=#FFFFFF leftmargin=5 topmargin=5 rightmargin=5 bottommargin=5>
<FONT size=2 color=#000000 face="Arial">
%%ImgCaption%% <STRONG>%%Caption%%</STRONG>
</FONT>
<hr>
#==============================================================================
[%%ROWTABLE%%]
<TABLE border=1 cellpadding=3 width="100%" cellspacing=0>
<tr bgcolor="%%BGColor%%"> <td>%%IgnoreHtmlTitle%%</td> </tr>
</TABLE>
#==============================================================================
[%%COMMENTS%%]
<TABLE border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%" bgcolor="%%BGColor%%">
<tr><td>%%Comments%%</td></tr>
</TABLE>
#==============================================================================
[%%FOOTER%%]
</body>
</html>
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The corresponding report looks like this:
First of all, you must assign the report a new name and description. To do this, modify text in quotations marks in the [%%ReportCaption="Notes"%%] and [%%ReportDescription=""%%] sections.
For example:
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[%%ReportCaption="Notes with the date"%%]
[%%ReportDescription="A date of creation is output near the note title"%%]
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(Here and further in the text, the red font color indicates our modifications and additions made).
Let's modify the source file by adding a value (date and time of creation) to the Created field in the [%%ROWTABLE%%] section. To do this, we add a cell with a width of 140 and the value of $$Created$$.
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[%%ROWTABLE%%]
<TABLE border=1 cellpadding=3 width="100%" cellspacing=0>
<tr bgcolor="%%BGColor%%"> <td>%%IgnoreHtmlTitle%%</td>
<td width=140>$$Created$$</td>
</tr>
</TABLE>
#==============================================================================
[%%COMMENTS%%]
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Let's rename the file, for example, to notesdate.rep
At the same time, the Notes with the date value will appear in the Report template dropdown list of the Report options dialog box.
In result, the report will have the following appearance:
If you make a mistake in spelling a keyword or entering a field value, the following error message appears upon printing:
| %!. . .!% | | error in a keyword |
| @!. . .!@ | error in a field name |
| $!. . .!$ | error in a field value |
where ". . ." is substituted by incorrectly entered data. |
