Thread Subject: Report Generator Component

Has anyone figured out how to put existing HTML into the output of a report? The standard text component escapes all the tags so that the content ends up as text with the HTML tags rather than formatted text.

I've tried to create my own custom component for this, but can't figure out how to make that work.

Hi James,

Please use "Import File" component - under group "Report Generator". Set the option "Import files as" to "Formatted text (HTML/RTF)". That should get you what you want.

Hope this helps.

Arkadiy Turevskiy
The MathWorks

"James Ross" <ross.remove.jamesh@johndeere.remove.com> wrote in message <gav7hb$r89$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Has anyone figured out how to put existing HTML into the output of a report? The standard text component escapes all the tags so that the content ends up as text with the HTML tags rather than formatted text.
>
> I've tried to create my own custom component for this, but can't figure out how to make that work.

Arkadiy,

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, this does not solve my problem. I actually have the html content in a string variable in Matlab (having extracted it from other sources in an m-file evaluated by the report). So, my HTML content does not actually exist in a file. I can't import a temporary file because the Import File component requires that the file be found at report design time. I would actually need to write a variable number of temporary files at report generation time and import these temporary files.

I really need to be able to dump the Matlab variable contents in and have it interepreted as html since my report will actually have a variable number of HTML components to insert - the report design will loop over a cell array and insert the HTML text from each cell.

"Arkadiy Turevskiy" <aturevsk@mathworks.com> wrote in message <gb8ir1$rjo$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi James,
>
> Please use "Import File" component - under group "Report Generator". Set the option "Import files as" to "Formatted text (HTML/RTF)". That should get you what you want.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Arkadiy Turevskiy
> The MathWorks
>
> "James Ross" <ross.remove.jamesh@johndeere.remove.com> wrote in message <gav7hb$r89$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > Has anyone figured out how to put existing HTML into the output of a report? The standard text component escapes all the tags so that the content ends up as text with the HTML tags rather than formatted text.
> >
> > I've tried to create my own custom component for this, but can't figure out how to make that work.

Hi James,
Thanks for explaining the problem. I talked to product developer and he suggested the following solution:
write a custom component and programmatically call the Import File component, “rptgen.crg_import_file”, to set the temporary file name.

If you find it hard to do this yourself, please contact technical support and they should be able to assist you.

Arkadiy



"James Ross" <ross.remove.jamesh@johndeere.remove.com> wrote in message <gb8m5q$gkj$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Arkadiy,
>
> Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, this does not solve my problem. I actually have the html content in a string variable in Matlab (having extracted it from other sources in an m-file evaluated by the report). So, my HTML content does not actually exist in a file. I can't import a temporary file because the Import File component requires that the file be found at report design time. I would actually need to write a variable number of temporary files at report generation time and import these temporary files.
>
> I really need to be able to dump the Matlab variable contents in and have it interepreted as html since my report will actually have a variable number of HTML components to insert - the report design will loop over a cell array and insert the HTML text from each cell.
>
> "Arkadiy Turevskiy" <aturevsk@mathworks.com> wrote in message <gb8ir1$rjo$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > Hi James,
> >
> > Please use "Import File" component - under group "Report Generator". Set the option "Import files as" to "Formatted text (HTML/RTF)". That should get you what you want.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Arkadiy Turevskiy
> > The MathWorks
> >
> > "James Ross" <ross.remove.jamesh@johndeere.remove.com> wrote in message <gav7hb$r89$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > > Has anyone figured out how to put existing HTML into the output of a report? The standard text component escapes all the tags so that the content ends up as text with the HTML tags rather than formatted text.
> > >
> > > I've tried to create my own custom component for this, but can't figure out how to make that work.

Thanks. I appreciate your help on this. I was able to get this basically working.

Jim


"Arkadiy Turevskiy" <aturevsk@mathworks.com> wrote in message <gbgaaq$qss$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
>
> Hi James,
> Thanks for explaining the problem. I talked to product developer and he suggested the following solution:
> write a custom component and programmatically call the Import File component, “rptgen.crg_import_file”, to set the temporary file name.
>
> If you find it hard to do this yourself, please contact technical support and they should be able to assist you.
>
> Arkadiy
>
>
>
> "James Ross" <ross.remove.jamesh@johndeere.remove.com> wrote in message <gb8m5q$gkj$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > Arkadiy,
> >
> > Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, this does not solve my problem. I actually have the html content in a string variable in Matlab (having extracted it from other sources in an m-file evaluated by the report). So, my HTML content does not actually exist in a file. I can't import a temporary file because the Import File component requires that the file be found at report design time. I would actually need to write a variable number of temporary files at report generation time and import these temporary files.
> >
> > I really need to be able to dump the Matlab variable contents in and have it interepreted as html since my report will actually have a variable number of HTML components to insert - the report design will loop over a cell array and insert the HTML text from each cell.
> >
> > "Arkadiy Turevskiy" <aturevsk@mathworks.com> wrote in message <gb8ir1$rjo$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > > Hi James,
> > >
> > > Please use "Import File" component - under group "Report Generator". Set the option "Import files as" to "Formatted text (HTML/RTF)". That should get you what you want.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps.
> > >
> > > Arkadiy Turevskiy
> > > The MathWorks
> > >
> > > "James Ross" <ross.remove.jamesh@johndeere.remove.com> wrote in message <gav7hb$r89$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > > > Has anyone figured out how to put existing HTML into the output of a report? The standard text component escapes all the tags so that the content ends up as text with the HTML tags rather than formatted text.
> > > >
> > > > I've tried to create my own custom component for this, but can't figure out how to make that work.