How to Generate Reporter Commands for a Report Template

Select a report template from the Templates view.

From the drop-down menu in the tab, select Show Cmd, see Figure 6-3.

A Command line invocation dialog box appears, displaying the generated command.

Figure 6-3 Command Line Invocation Dialog

Parameters that have default values are given the default value. A value of ___ (underscore) indicates mandatory parameters that do not have default values.

Click OK.

The command, with all the switches and parameters, is placed on the clipboard.

Open a file or command prompt.

Do one of the following:

Open a file from which to execute the command from a shell and save the file in the Reporter directory.

Open a command prompt from which to execute the CLI command and change the directory to the Reporter directory.

Paste the clipboard contents.

The command is pasted in the file or in the command line.

Add the mandatory flags.

-o "filename"

-format "fileformat"

(Optional) Change parameters. For example, you may want to change the numhours parameter, see Figure 6-4.

Figure 6-4 Change Parameters Example

Execute the command.

The exported file is saved in the defined directory with a time stamp appended to the name of the report instance.