About Creating Table Templates using a DS Report Template

Drafting Template Design provides the possibility to reuse an existing DS report template in a table template.

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Creating a Table Template Using the DS Report Template
About Table Templates

The table template uses the DS report template directly to compute the final report, using the input objects provided by an ASD generative table. After the report is computed, a table annotation is created.

This functionality lets you to combine advantages of ASD generative tables (associativity with input data and with the table template) along with customization possibilities of DS report templates for simple tables.

Report Specification
Structure and content
There are the same number of columns in the report as attributes definitions in the DS report template, in addition to the Position Number column (automatically generated).
The computed report consists of the following elements:
  • A header static element.

    Its content is made of the reported attribute names given by the DS report template.

  • Any number of item elements.

    Each item corresponds to exactly one element computed by the DS report template, with each column filled with computed attribute data.

Configurable Attributes
There are no specific configurable attributes. Everything has to be configured directly in the DS report template.
Default Table Layout
After selection of a DS report template, a default table layout is computed using its definition.

There is one configurable element class for Header and Item.