Channel reports

Channel reports provide a flexible way to extract information from your channels and using Awasu's powerful template processing engine, you can export it in any format you want.

Managing your reports

Open the Channel Reports dialog from the View main menu.

To create a new channel report, click on the green plus icon [1] to start the Channel Report Wizard that will guide you through the process.

For quick access, hotkeys can be assigned to channel reports:

• Select the report in the list.
• Click in the Hotkey edit box in the top right-hand corner of the dialog.
• Press the key combination you want to use.
• Click on the button on the right to assign the hotkey.

Configuring channel reports

The first thing to set is which channels will be included in the report.

• From a channel filter
  Any channels that pass the filter will be included. You can include all items from each channel, new items only or unread items only.
• From a workpad
  The report will be generated from the items in a workpad.

Next, choose a template file that will control the the format of the report's output. Several templates are supplied as standard:

• DefaultChannelReport.template
  The default template that will be used if one is not specified. It simply lists each feed item together with any descriptions that are provided.
• CompactChannelReport.template
  Generates a minimal (links only) HTML page [2].
• MyBlogroll.template
  Generates an HTML code fragment suitable for inclusion in your blog as a blogroll.

  This report uses the predefined My Blogroll channel filter so all you have to do is put the channels you want to be included into the My Blogroll folder and they will automatically be included in the report.
• MetaChannel.template
  Combines one or more channels together into a single meta-channel.

These templates can be customized to suit your needs [3] or you can write your own and use them instead.

The generated reports can optionally be stored in a file somewhere (perhaps so that they can be read by another program) or automatically FTP'ed to a web server.

Reports can also be automatically regenerated at regular intervals. This is particularly useful when used in conjunction with the FTP upload feature since it lets you keep content on a web site up-to-date. For example, you could generate a blogroll report once a day and automatically upload it to your blog to ensure that your blogroll is always up-to-date.