Report Plug-ins

The reporting plug-ins concept allows anyone to write a plug-in that transforms report data into various formats used for printing or integration. A plug-in layout has a special type (Other) and require an RPL (Report Plugin Layout) file to be imported.

We have provided five standard plug-ins that are available out of the box.

• The CSV plug-in transforms a flat xml stream into a CSV (comma separated values) stream and forwards it to a desired destination (binary, file, e-mail).
• The EXCEL plug-in transforms a flat xml stream into a xml style sheet stream that can be opened with Excel and forwards it to a desired destination (binary, file, e-mail).
• The XML plug-in forwards the xml input stream to a desired destination (binary, file, e-mail) without any transformations.
• The XSLT plug-in transforms a xml stream according to XSL code from the .rpl file and forwards it to a desired destination (binary, file, e-mail).
• The SCRIPT plug-in transforms a flat xml stream into a collection of scripts (e.g. ZPL Scripts, EPL Scripts) and forwards it to a desired destination (binary, file, e-mail).

If you like to write you own plug-in, please read the detailed instructions here.
The details on how to use our standard plug-in can be found here.