RickC

Guys,

Here's a link to a zip file that contains two CHM files for the ReportUtilities helper class that many of the reports rely on.

Report Utilities

It covers all of the methods, what they are designed to do, and any constraints that there may be (required to iterate of certain sections of the XML, etc.).

The primary CHM is called ReportUtilities.chm and this documents the helper class. The second CHM (Item.CHM) documents the "Item" class which is simply an entity that represents the "Item" Nodes in the XML. I included this as some of the helper methods return an object of type "Item".

Some of the methods have been tweaked a bit to be more flexible in the next SP. Currently, you may run into methods that fail unless your report is iterating over the items. I think "TotalProjectPrice" is one of them. This is corrected in the next SP.

As always, this is "As Is". We built the ReportUtilities class in order to help simplify repetitive tasks in the script and to make life a bit easier from an internal perspective. It wasn't done with an eye toward covering everything, but should help. That said, all the methods are consumable in custom reports so feel free to use them.

Given they were designed primarily for internal use, there may be instances where methods have to change in order to deal bug fixes, etc. The potential for behavior change exists, but we hope to mimimize type of thing if at all possible.

FYI, you may run into a function or two in the CHM file that are not yet available. I went through the methods today and tried to add a description to everything and exclude anything that is not yet available (I think there is only 1), but in an effort to make good on my "next day or two for a rough cut" gaff from last week, I wanted to get make this available ASAP.

Hope this helps.

-R