2. Report Importing Tools
In chapter one we learned how to save a report definition to an XML (extensible markup language) file that is external to the xTuple database. These files may be used as a backup and as a means to share reports definitions throughout the xTuple community.
In this chapter we will learn about two tools that facilitate the importation of one or more report definitions using their XML definition file. We have already seen that it is possible to use the report writer itself to open a report from its XML definition file so the main benefit to these tools is the ability to import multiple files simultaneously, or, in the case of the command line tool, write scripts that do the importation.
