Customizing Report Writer

General Questions/Discussions
1

Hello!

I’m trying to customize the Report Writer to do the following:

Imagine a Business Process Diagram as shown in the attached image. The implied tree-structure of the diagram’s elements would be:
–Diagram
----Pool
------Group
--------Task
(Pool is a child of the diagram, group is a child of pool, …)

The actual tree-structure of the diagram’s element is:
–Diagram
----Pool
------Task
----Group
(Group is a child of the diagram, not a child of Pool)

I want to represent the given structure as implied by the diagram (not the actual) in the report writer. I tried the following, but it didn’t work of course.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Template>
	<TemplateInformationHeader name="Review Test" description="/" type="table" default="false"/>
	<DiagramBaseInitiationBlock>
		<StaticText content = "Business Process Diagram : " style = "Heading 1 (VP)"/>
		<StringPropertyText propertyText = "name" style = "Heading 1 (VP)"/>
		<ParagraphBreak/>
		<!-- Diagram Image -->
		<StaticText content="" style="Default"/>
		
		<!-- CHILDREN BEGIN -->
		<HasChildElementChecker flag="true">
			<!-- POOLS -->
			<IterationBlock modelType="BPPool" allLevel="true">
				<StaticText content="Pool : " style="Heading 2 (VP)" />
				<StringPropertyText propertyText = "name" style = "Heading 2 (VP)"/>
				<ParagraphBreak/>
				
				<HasChildElementChecker flag="true">
					<StaticText content="Children : " style="Heading 2 (VP)" />
					<ParagraphBreak/>
					<IterationBlock modelType="BPGroup" allLevel="true">
						<StaticText content="Group : " style="Heading 3 (VP)" />
						<StringPropertyText propertyText = "name" style = "Heading 3 (VP)"/>
					</IterationBlock>
				</HasChildElementChecker>
			</IterationBlock>
			<StaticText content="" style="Default"/>
			<ParagraphBreak/>
			
		</HasChildElementChecker>
		<!-- CHILDREN END -->
		<StaticText content="" style="Default"/>
		
	</DiagramBaseInitiationBlock>
</Template>

Is it even possible to do this?

Thanks in advance!
-cbarth

BPD_01.jpg

2

Hi Cbarth,

Thanks for your post and this issue is forwarded to our engineers. I’ll let you know once there is any feedback from our engineers.

Best regards,
Lilian Wong

3

Hi Cbarth,

Sorry for my late response. Attached you can find a sample template for generate details as tree-structure of diagram elements, please place it in VPSuite/resources/Report/Default/BusinessProcessDiagram folder.

Hope this helps. Please feel free to ask if there is anything else I can do to help.

Best regards,
Lilian Wong
ChildrenInBounds.xml

4

Hello LilianWong,

thank you for your work (and the work of your engineers), it was exactly what i was looking for.

5

Hi Cbarth,

You are welcome. :slight_smile:

Best regards,
Lilian Wong