You can run spreadsheet reports from the command line. This means that you can include report generation in batch scripts and create reports without needing to bring up the aPriori user interface. This can be useful for automated status reports, or automatically feeding aPriori data into another application or database.

Reports run from the command line do not need to be installed in aPriori prior to use. You can simply specify the pathname to the .xml input and .xls output files. Note that you should specify any .xls template file with the "templatePath" attribute to the "reports" tag at the top of the .xml file. For example:

Otherwise the output .xls file will be unformatted; any existing content will be overwritten.