Advanced Web Ranking User Guide

Chapter 13. Customize HTML Reports using XSL

Table of Contents

Global Customization
Individual Reports Customization
Headers and Footers
XSL Tutorials

Did you ever want to create HTML reports like the ones you are accustomed to within your company? Now you can, using the Customized Reports! This feature enables you to create HTML reports from an XML file using a stylesheet language called XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language). To customize the report, all you need to do is change the XSL transformation file. Advanced Web Ranking will then generate an HTML report with your custom layout using the XSL file you provided.

All printable HTML reports can take advantage of this feature. The layout of the header and footer for each report can also be modified so that the whole HTML report will look exactly as you want.

Global Customization

To customize a report, all you need to do is open the [Options]->[Preferences] dialog and click on the Customize button in the Report Preferences tab. This dialog gives you a convenient way to set all the HTML reports from all projects to use a specific XSL transformation.

Here you can select the reports you wish to transform and their respective XSL transformation file. Advanced Web Ranking comes with default transformations for each report but you can use your own XSL transformation by selecting a custom file here.

[Note]Note

The default transformation files can be found in the "transforms" folder, within the folder where Advanced Web Ranking is installed on your computer.