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So, what about the Cheat Sheets we saw in the canned Templates? Well, Cheat Sheets
are simply XML files that explain the steps that are installed as Eclipse Plug-ins.
Describing how to do so is beyond the scope of this book; however, it is possible to
create new Cheat Sheets if you are familiar with the process. So, let's say we wanted
to associate the My First Report Template Cheat Sheet with the Template we just
created. Under the Report Properties, we would put in the plug-in class under
the Cheat sheet Property. The Dev2Dev article Building Cheat Sheets in Eclipse
provides a good tutorial on building Cheat Sheets at http://dev2dev.bea.com/
pub/a/2006/08/eclipse-cheat-sheets.html.
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Summary
In this chapter, we have seen how to create Styles and Themes that can be used to
create a consistent appearance for your Reporting Projects. This becomes important
later on when you have large Report Projects with a large number of reports, and
you do not want to spend a whole lot of development time on formatting.
We have also seen how to work with external CSS files in Report Projects. This is
useful if your Reporting Project will be part of a larger Web Portal and you want to
maintain a uniform look and feel with the overall site.
This chapter showed us a slightly different way to work with and create Report
Designs.
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