Anthracite's Report Objects allow you to place text from various sources or output by different processes into a combined document.
There are currently two types of Report Objects, one for basic reports that combine the object's inputs into one compound document, and another for placing the inputs into specified fields of templates.
1. Basic Report
The Basic Report Object tool takes the inputs that you've connected to the object, lets you arrange the order in which they should be included, specify if the source URLs should be shown (and clickable), and then apply a header and footer loaded from the web or a local file URL.
In the example shown, two upstream objects are connected to this Basic Report object. They've been arranged so that the source named "Source Two" will be placed first, followed by the source named "Source One." The URL from which the sources were loaded will be included, and it will be a clickable link. The header and footer will be loaded from documents served from the Metafy.com website.
2. Template Reports
The Template Report Object gives you more flexibility in creating output by letting you use templates that were created by other programs (or by hand) in conjunction with the output of your processor chains.
Templates are loaded from the web or local files and specified by URL.
Types:
Apache (HTML Comments)
The popular open-source web server Apache features a built-in method for substituting content into a web page when the page is loaded.
Anthracite uses an identical syntax to substitute the output of your sources and processors into the templates you create.
In your web pages, placing a hidden comment in this format:
<!--#anthracite name="TITLE"-->instructs Anthracite to substitute the data from the input named "TITLE" coming into the report tool in place of this tag.
KSL: Snippet Report Example Not Shown (see example docs).
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