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A common requirement is that specific information needs to be made available as a file or printout. A normal Internet page is generally inappropriate for this, as many format definitions (paper size, etc.) are simply unavailable.

Since, however, the options for designing printable documents should be as comprehensive as possible, there is really only one group of software products able to cover most requirements: text processing systems.

Starting with Intrexx 7.0, a mechanism is available that allows a template for OpenOffice to be created based on a view page in the Application Designer. This template contains all elements (view fields, tables, static text, images, and so on) in the Intrexx page. An attempt is made to place the elements corresponding to how they are defined on the Intrexx page, although this cannot be guaranteed in all circumstances. For report generation, the text processing programs described in the following can be used.

OpenOffice

OpenOffice is an open source text processing program that can be used without paying licensing fees. Its use is little different from Microsoft’s Office products.

The template created from an application page can be designed, formatted, and provided with headers and footers using all possibilities for text processing. Of course, it can also access data from an Intrexx application.

The data is dynamically inserted in the document – text fields are then placed in the template as placeholders. Tables can also be displayed. In this case, the table is created using Velocity markup. When a page break occurs, you can define whether a header line repeats.

The placeholders within the template have the system name from the application by default. Since these names are normally not very expressive, as well as normally being relatively long, it can be difficult to keep an overview within a template. To counteract this, Intrexx provides the ability to change the names in a dialog box.

iText

The iText open source text processor is included with an installation of Intrexx. iText can be preset in the portal properties.

iText can be used to generate simple reports without tables or images, but this text processing program is not recommended for more complex report outputs.

The completed document can be opened directly from the browser via a new button action. You can define whether the document should be opened in its original format (such as *.odt) or as a PDF.

The Process Manager contains the Generate Report action. This action generates the document (PDF or ODT file), which can then be saved directly to a data record.