As well as sending interpretive reports to an Online Information System, RippleDown has the facility to generate text files according to report items that you have built in the corresponding project. The files will be stored in the directory that you specify.

Create a workflow rule as follows:

  1. Create a workflow report section.
  2. For a case where you want to generate a text file, create a comment in the workflow section in the following case sensitive format:<DATA> <FILE> filename.txt </FILE> </DATA>

    where:

    ‘filename.txt’ is the name of the file to be generated. You may need to include a variable in the file name so that each file has a different name.

    Note: To produce a textual report, make sure that the file name ends with “.txt”.

  3. Add the comment to the report using the appropriate rule.
  4. Only one DATA command can be specified per report, however several commands can be created for the one case.
  5. If a case is autovalidated, the file will be generated as soon as that case and report is sent back the LIS. Otherwise, if the case is queued to the validator, the file will be generated once the report has been reviewed and approved.

Once you have built the rules to give PDF comments, you can review cases in the Archive case list to check that the PDF comments are being given correctly. If you need to add, replace or remove a PDF comment, you can do this with rules in exactly the same way as for a reporting comment.

See also:

BMD PDF report generation

Formatting a PDF report, and inserting graphics

Sending an email using rules