Provides a means of displaying a menu with reports that the user can quickly generate.

Note that for BIRT reports the report menu uses existing report configuration items to populate the menu, it does not point directly to the BIRT report definition files.

ID

com.cohga.client.action.simplereportmenu

Sub-tags

Name	type	cardinality	description
label	String	0..1	Label to display in button
format	String	0..1	The format to generate the report in (can also be set per-report)
reports	report list	1..1	The list of reports to include in the menu

Example

	<item action="com.cohga.client.action.simplereportmenu">
		<label>Quick Reports</label>
		<tooltip>
			<title>Quick Report</title>
			<text>Generate a preset report</text>
		</tooltip>

		<!-- Set a default format, the user can't choose one if you do this -->
		<format>pdf</format>

		<reports>
			<report>
				<report>map_portrait_a4</report>
			</report>

			<!-- Overwrite the report label -->
			<report>
				<label>A4 Landscape Map Report</label>
				<report>map_landscape_a4</report>
			</report>

			<!-- Only enable the entry for a particular entity -->
			<report>
				<entity>property</entity>
				<label>Property Detail</label>
				<report>property_details</report>
			</report>

			<!-- set the report parameter rather than the user having to enter it -->
			<report>
				<entity>property</entity>
				<label>Property Detail - 1:5000</label>
				<report>property_details</report>
				<!-- assumes the report has a parameter called 'scale' that the user usually inputs -->
				<parameters>
					<scale>5000</scale>
				</parameters>
			</report>
		</reports>
	</item>

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