Create HTML Report actions write the contents
of one or more Table datasets, XML datasets or XML parameters to an HTML
report. Each report generated by the action is stored in a folder underneath
the LiveCompare user data directory. If the Create HTML Report action’s
Fixed parameter is set to ‘false’, its reports are stored in the following
time-stamped directory:
<LiveCompare user data dir>\public\Reports\<Workspace
Name>\<Report Name>_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS
If the Create HTML Report action’s Fixed
parameter is set to ‘true’, its reports are stored in the following directory,
which does not include a time stamp:
<LiveCompare user data dir>\public\Reports\<Workspace
Name>\<Report Name>
Action Property
Description
Fixed
A Boolean
parameter which indicates whether the Create HTML Report action will
generate fixed location reports. If this parameter is set to ‘true’, the
action stores its report in the <Report Name> directory; this directory will be removed and then recreated each time the
action is run. If the Fixed parameter is set to ‘false’, a new report
will be generated in its own time-stamped directory each time the action
is run.
Each fixed location report in a workspace should
normally have a different value for its Report Name parameter. This
will ensure that each workflow’s Report URL dataset points to the expected
report.
Html1
An XML parameter
or dataset containing data to be written
to the HTML report.
Html2
A second XML parameter
or dataset containing data to be written
to the HTML report.
Html3
A third XML parameter
or dataset containing data to be written
to the HTML report.
Report Name
A String parameter
which stores the name used for the generated report. If the Fixed parameter
is set to ‘false’, the generated report name includes a timestamp indicating
when the report was created.
Report URL
A String dataset
which is set to contain the URL of the generated report.
Row Status to Show
For Table datasets that store comparison results,
a String List parameter which
stores the comparison statuses to appear in the report. The String List
parameter may contain the values ‘Same’, ‘Different’, ‘In1’, or ‘In2’. If this action property is not set, all comparison statuses
are shown.
Source1
A Table dataset
containing data to be written to the HTML report.
Source2
A second Table
dataset containing data to be written to the HTML report.
Source3
A third Table
dataset containing data to be written to the HTML report.
Each HTML report has a Table of Contents page
which includes a link to each of the tables and XML pages in the report. The number of rows reported in each table is determined by the
lower of the following values:
The ‘R3CompTConTier2MaxRowsForDisplay’
configuration setting, which has a default
value of 1000.
The ‘Maximum number of rows/objects
to display:’ User Preferences setting
for the current user.
Generated HTML reports
may be accessed by double-clicking the action’s Report URL dataset, or by choosing
‘View Details’ from the dataset’s context menu. They may also be accessed
from a workspace’s Reports folder in the LiveCompare hierarchy. Choose
‘Reload Children’ from the folder’s context menu to list any newly-generated
reports.
Example:
To examine the details for a Create HTML Report
action, double-click the action node, or select ‘View Details’ from the
node’s context menu. The Details screen displays the number of records
in each of the Source tables and the time taken for the action to complete.
Create HTML Report actions support the use
of the Define Action Parameters
Wizard, which allows new ‘Source’ input parameters to be created with
the type ‘Table’, and new ‘Html’ input parameters to be created with type
‘Xml’.