Reports

GTKtalog User's Guide - Mon Sep 24 00:40:59 CEST 2001
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# Chapter 9. Reports

A report is a listing of your catalog's disks, directories and files. GTKtalog reports are in text format because today it is the best format to exchange with other applications such as databases.

Open the Create report window clicking on the toolbar "Create report" button. There are many options to change a report output. In this chapter "items" stands for "disks, directories and files" and "record" stands for "a disk, directory or file line in the report"

Disk. Select 'All disks' to include all disks in the report. To limit the report to one disk, select the disk name in the list.

Category. Select '(All)' to include all items in the report. To limit the report items matching a particular category, select the category name in the list. Select '(None)' if you want only the items with no category in your report.

Report fields. Check the fields you want to see in the report.

Report options.

- Include VFS content : include files within VFS in the report

- Include directories : Each directory, inside or outside VFS, has its entry in the report before its files and subdirectories. Only available in Sort by Category or Disk->Dir->File mode

- Location : Only available in Sort by Tree mode. Each directory entry, inside or outside VFS, has its full path in parenthesis

- Only items with description : Only items with a description will be listed in this report

- Only items with category : Only items with a category will be listed in this report

Sort by.

- Category : Items are sorted by category then by disk and directories.

- Disk->Dir->File : This is the default sort mode. Files are sorted by disk and dir.

- Tree : Entries of the report are indented so as to show the catalog's tree structure (the ordering is disk, dir, file). In this mode, the directories are automatically included. You can only chose to show or hide the location (path) with the Location check box

CSV. (Comma Separated Value files) These are options for tuning the records formatting.

- Separator : Type the character(s) that will separate the fields of a record. A comma is the default separator character

- Put quotes around fields :

  If checked, each field within a record will be enclosed by quotes. Ex : "field1","field2"

  If unchecked, fields will only be separated by the separator character(s). Ex : field1,field2

- Remove the End Of Line characters

  If checked, between two record lines there is nothing (only one "line feed character" : 0xa)

  If unchecked, between two record lines there is one blank line (two "line feed characters")

- Add the legend

  If checked, informations such as the fields included in the report, the sort method ... will appear in the report

  If unchecked, only record lines will appear in the report

Output file. type the output file's path or use the file selector clicking on "..."

Click on the "Create report" button to generate the report.

The message "Report successfull" will inform you when the report is completed. Go and see the result with your favorite text editor.

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