Custom report templates

Users can create and generate custom reports based on queries performed in IXIA CCMS. These reports display the information returned by the query used and also include boilerplate text that serves as the report header, for example.

This boilerplate text is defined as parameters in a custom report template. The CCMS includes a default report template (report2html.xsl). You can edit it or create additional templates if needed.

Report template parameters are defined as editable key-value pairs. The values included in the template serve as default values for the report, overwritten in the report by the values specified by the user.

For example, the report2html.xsl file in the /system/xsl/report folder contains two parameters called CompanyName and Department:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
    <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    ...	
    <xsl:param name="CompanyName">IxiaSoft Technologie Inc.</xsl:param>
    <xsl:param name="Department">Development team</xsl:param>

When you create a custom report using the report2html.xsl file as the template, CompanyName and Department are displayed as keys in the Parameters pane along with the values specified in the template. If the user modifies values, the new values appear in the generated report, but do not impact the template itself.