XML - Exporting Data Manually

Here's an example of how to create a report with a link that allows data to be exported manually by the user:

1. In your report definition, add an Action.Export XML element as the child of a Label, Image, Button or Chart element, as shown above.
2. Below it, add the required Target.XML child element.
3. If the data to be exported is part of the current report, you don't need do anything else. Just save your definition and browse your report. It's that simple. The default settings will export the current reports' data.

What happens when the link is clicked? The report's data is exported to a temporary .XML file which is created in your application's rdDownload folder on the web server. The temp file is then opened automatically in your browser (or in whatever tool the .xml file extension has been associated with in the OS). From there, you can save it to a file, if desired.

XML files opened in a browser are usually formatted for easier viewing, which may introduce extraneous characters. If you want to save a "clean" copy of the XML (which is necessary if you want to use the file as a data source later), right-click the displayed XML and select your browser's "View source" option, then save that display to a file. Only the data from the datalayer is exported; headers, footers, paging, images, etc. from the source report are not exported. Any conditions, filters, aggregations, etc. that have been applied to the datalayer will be reflected in the exported data. The following table provides explanations for the Target.XML element's attributes, which are all optional:

The temporary files generated during the export are cleaned up automatically over time.