Windward Reports Samples

These samples are here to help you learn how to use Windward Reports. In many cases clicking on the template for a sample and looking at the tags in the sample will show you everything you need to know to create a similiar report.

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We included samples to help you learn how to:

  • Display, format, hide, and color text
  • Automatically generate lists, tables, and table of contents
  • Handle images, hyperlinks, and HTML
  • Peform calculations
  • Manipulate headers and footers
  • Call Windward from your Java program.

There are four categories of samples:

  • Standard Examples - These samples were created to give our new users a solid foundation of the most basic features of using Windward Reports with Microsoft Word. Take a few moments to open, observe and run each of these samples.
  • Sample Templates - In the General Templates section you will see many fully finished reports that involve all of the features shown above as well as some new features. These are fully working reports that show the power of Windward Reports.
  • Specialized Examples - These samples show a variety of specialized requests that Windward has received from its users. Each displays a specific problem and how to solve it using Windward Reports. For even more specialized samples, please go to our Knowledgebase.
  • Java Examples - These samples show how to integrate Windward Reports in to your Java application.

For every sample you will generally see:

  • Template - this is the template file that will be used with Windward Reports. This file contains tags which will be replaced with data from the data file when the report is run. The format will be in RTF or WordML (XML).
  • XML Data File - this is the data file that the report will retrieve its data from when run. The format will be in XML (This will not exist for SQL examples.)
  • Expected Output - this is a file that has been generated at Windward showing the expected output you should receive after running the report. The format will be in RTF or WordML (XML).
  • Video - These exist mainly in the Standard Examples, the video will show you the template being created.