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Reporting is a central part of front-, middle- and backoffice work. This course introduces the XML - XSLT (eXtensible Markup Language - eXstensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) reporting framework which is the foundation for all reports in Front Arena.
Basic reporting
This section covers basic day to day usage of the reporting functionality included in Front Arena. It includes introduction, demonstration and exercises of the following:
- Producing a portfolio report
- High-lighting differences between these reports and ASQL based reports
- Scheduling batch reports on the ATS
- Understanding the report pipeline
o Overview of the reporting script structure
o XML's role in the reporting
o XSLT transforms for multiple output formats
- Exercises:
o Create reports from PRIME with different data formats including HTML, text and PDF
Customising reporting
In the second part of the course we cover how to customise the existing reports. This requires a more in-depth understanding of the used technologies. It includes:
- Introduction to XML, XSLT, CSS
Covers the basics of XSLT needed for understanding the report templates and making changes to them
- Exercise on creating customized versions of templates
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