Report templates are built from PowerShell script and Microsoft Excel files, this article will dive deeper into the PowerShell scripts.
An understanding of PowerShell is required to edit these files, there many online resources available to assist in learning more about PowerShell. This article is intended to point you in the right direction regarding updating the PowerShell scripts.
Script location
PowerShell scripts are stored in location:
- C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\Webroot Reporting\Templates\[template name]\Scripts
Where:
- [user] is the user account that installed Universal Reporter
- [template name] is the name of the template
Script functionality
The PowerShell scripts for Universal Reporter share common ‘Export’ functions that call ‘Add’ functions for each of the spreadsheet reference sheets. The scripts use 2 Cmdlets Webroot created specifically for Universal Reporter, the Excel Cmdlet and the Unity API Cmdlet. It also uses a CommonFunctions module.
Here is an example of a script file, showing the high level structure:
Some template script files pre-process data before writing to the spreadsheet, these will have additional functions to ‘Group’ and ‘Convert’ data.
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