<p>This allows to define the format of the output. Simply click on your
preferred output format to determine whether you would like the report
output in web format, to PDF, CSV, as XML or Excel.</p>
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<p>To select, simply click on your chosen format from the drop-down list as
shown above. Note that any report can be run several times with
different formats selected for theoutput if required.</p>
<h4><img id="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/web_icon.gif" /> Web</h4>
<p>When a report is run, its output is displayed in the Report Output
window, which is a mini web-browser containing the HTML output generated
by the report engine. It is the common interface for all reports. The
report body is shown in a window that can be panned around by using the
horizontal and vertical scrollbars. If the report is made up of
multiple pages, you can navigate it by using the <span class="button">Back</span> and <span class="button">Fwd</span> buttons at
the bottom. You can print the report by pressing the <span class="button">Print</span> button, or
save the report to an HTML file by pressing the <span class="button">Save</span> button and choosing
a filename and location.</p>
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<p><<p>Universally-accessible, this format provides clickable column headers
for dynamic sorting of table data, with clean graphical charts in the
popular Flash format, so you can zoom into them for more detail. Each
report is fully customisable - right down to the individual table
fields. To view these reports, all that's needed is your favourite web
browser - with no need for obscure add-ons!</p>
<h4><img id="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/pdf_icon.gif" /> PDF (Portable Document Format)</h4>
<p>PDF is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document
exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a
manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating
system.</p>
<p>PDFs will run over several pages depending on the report selected.
Because of the nature of PDF reports, headers are fixed and not
selectable as in web reports above. You may however pre-sort before
running or scheduling using the filters available in the <span class="reference">Options</span>
section. PDFs are ideal for producing reports like <span class="reference">Phone Bills</span>. PDFs
are ideal when distributing to colleagues inside and outside of your
organisation - while guaranteeing they'll look identical across all
operating systems when viewed on the screen or printed out.</p>
<h4><img id="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/xml_icon.gif" /> XML (Extensible Markup Language)</h4>
<p>XMLs purpose is to aid information systems in sharing structured data,
especially via the internet, to encode documents and to serialise data.
XML, in combination with other standards, makes it possible to define
the content of a document separately from its formatting, making it easy
to reuse that content in other applications or for other presentation
environments. Most importantly, XML provides a basic syntax that can be
used to share information between different kinds of computers,
different applications, and different organizations without needing to
pass through many layers of conversion.</p>
<p>Since all reports are derived from this native format, we pack each one
with all the data you'd ever need, so you'll always be able to extract
the report data into your favourite reporting packages, such as Business
Objects, Crystal Reports, or even your favourite Office spreadsheet.</p>
<h4><img id="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/csv_icon.gif" /> CSV (Comma separated values)</h4>
<p>A CSV file is used for the digital storage of data structured in a table
of lists form, where each associated item (member) in a group is in
association with others also separated by the commas of its set. Each
line in the CSV file corresponds to a row in the table. Within a line,
fields are separated by commas, each field belonging to one table
column. CSV files are often used for moving tabular data between two
different computer programs, for example between a database program and a
spreadsheet program.</p>
<p>This option is ideal for interacting with your own back office systems,
all CSV data is fully customisable using XSLT from the report's original
XML format.</p>
<h4><img id="icon" src="http://www.tri-line.com/common/img/documentation/tim_enterprise/excel_icon.gif" /> Excel</h4>
<p>Select Excel as your preferred report format, if you would like to
manipulate the data and possibly integrate with data in other Excel
spreadsheets.</p> |