Workflow

The typical workflow for defining and running such custom reports is:

1 Create an .xml file to return the results you want (see "Creating a Custom Spreadsheet Report" below). Optionally define an Excel .xls file to format the data the way you want. In the .xml file, make sure to define the <report> tag "templatePath" attribute to point to the current .xls file).

2 Install the new report, either by copying the files to
user\apriori\version\watchpoint-report-defs, or by creating a .zip file from the modified .xml and .xls files and using
Tools>Spreadsheet Reports>Install Spreadsheet Reports.
(Copying a new report for the first time requires restarting aPriori; subsequent update copies do not.)

3 Run the report with Reports>Spreadsheet Reports

Note that you can also choose to run the custom report (or any system-defined report) from the command line. If you will always be running this report from the command line and never using it from the UI, you can skip the last two steps and generate the reports as described in See "Running from the Command Line" on page 1.

When you install your custom reports, they reside in your local aPriori user folder, such as:

C:\Users\myUserName\aPriori\14.1\watchpoint-report-defs

They are NOT added to the aPriori system-defined reports in
apriori_install\ext\cost-watchpoint-report\watchpoints