Reusing & Rebranding Reports

In some cases, you may want to use a particular report multiple times. This comes up quite a lot when you're doing shift reporting, where you'll want the same report for the morning shift that you have for the afternoon shift.

To save on maintenance, the reporting addon allows you to make a report that runs the Python script from a different report.

In this example, let's say we have a daily report called daily_summary, and we want to create an alternate version for morning and afternoon shifts.

We still create a folder and an info.txt file for our report, just as we'd normally do.

But instead of adding a Python script, we create a text file called <reportname>.rebrand (for example, the report 'morning_summary' would have a file called morning_summary.rebrand).

In the text file, we put the folder name of the report we actually want to use. In this case, the text file would contain…

daily_summary

The Python report itself can contain logic that checks the report name to determine which version is being produced.

This allows the script to behave differently when making the morning vs the afternoon report, if required.