Sometimes you want to print a report of an item and there are no suitable report templates available. One solution is to define a type of universal report template that works for any type of item.
Below is an example of such a report. It traverses the item structure, in a fixed* number of steps, and prints names, types, description text and attributes of all items it finds. The example also uses a filter to avoid “Reference” parts, since those have no specific meaning and are more likely to include recursive item structures.
XML
<Report>
<FontStyles>
<FontStyle name="Minor" style="italic" font="Segoe UI" size="6"/>
</FontStyles>
<Filter name="isNotRef">
<Not>
<PartTypeEquals sid="IDR"/>
</Not>
</Filter>
<Text></Text>
<TimeNow/>
<TableOfContents max_level="3"/>
<!-- To control the number of recursion calls-->
<Variable name="PartGroupDepth" as="Integer" select="10"/>
<Section title="#{Type.Name}: #{Name}">
<Text font="Minor">SystemWeaver ID: #{Handle} Version: #{Version} Status: #{Status} Date: #{?Now.Format('iso')}</Text>
<Text/>
<AttributeTable/>
<Description/>
<ApplyTemplate name="PartReport">
<WithParam name="p1" select="$PartGroupDepth"/>
</ApplyTemplate>
</Section>
<Template name="ItemReportContent">
<Text font="Minor">SystemWeaver ID: #{Handle} Version: #{Version} Status: #{Status} Date: #{?Now.Format('iso')}</Text>
<Text/>
<AttributeTable/>
<Description/>
</Template>
<Template name="PartReport">
<Parameter name="p1" as="Integer"/>
<ForEachPartGroup>
<ForEachPart>
<If filter="isNotRef">
<Section title="#{Type.Name}/#{DefObj.Type.Name}: #{Name}">
<DefObj>
<ApplyTemplate name="ItemReportContent"/>
<If test="$p1 != 0">
<ApplyTemplate name="PartReport">
<WithParam name="p1" select="$p1 - 1"/>
</ApplyTemplate>
</If>
</DefObj>
</Section>
</If>
</ForEachPart>
</ForEachPartGroup>
</Template>
</Report>Result
* This kind of report cannot use item templates, since traversing all part types may result in “endless loops”. (The swExplorer will terminate at a fixed number of iterations, in order to avoid such loops)