It would be extremely helpful to be able to Copy out of the Report Designer, edit the XML file and paste it back in. This topic hints to a solution but I do not know how to make his code work for this propose.
I would appreciate an explanation of the script or an outright solution.
Thank you,
Reporting only expects data to be pasted in in a certain “dataflavor” - that’s the cross-platform abstraction Java/Swing uses to interact with the system clipboard. So the script I have there is mostly boilerplate to create a ‘MockReportMillClipboard’ Java object, which then gets copied to the system clipboard.
This section at the end is the only part that actually does anything with the data in the clipboard:
dataflavor = None
for df in clip.getAvailableDataFlavors():
if df.mimeType == 'application/x-java-serialized-object; class=java.lang.String':
dataflavor = df
break
if dataflavor:
data = clip.getData(dataflavor)
regex = r"<text(.*)>"
subst = r'<text\g<1> url="%s">' % url
result = re.sub(regex, subst, data, re.MULTILINE)
print "Added URL to clipboard object"
clip.setContents(MockReportMillClipboard(result), None)
First, it tries to extract the data from reportmill as a string (this will be the XML). clip.getData(dataflavor) returns that as a string. Then at the end, clip.setContents is used with the ‘MockReportMillClipboard’ to create an object that acts the same as real ReportMill data, which means the rest of the system just accepts it and lets you paste it in.
I recommend running that script in the designer, since the script console is available and gives you ~easy access to running scripts at the same time you’re editing a report.
I am giving this a try and get this error. I am trying to copy a Table component.
This actually did work for graph component.
19:50:40.927 [AWT-EventQueue-0] WARN reporting.ReportMill.Editor - Exception encountered when retrieving shapes from clipboard
com.inductiveautomation.rm.base.RMException: Element type "text" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".
at com.inductiveautomation.rm.archiver.RXElement.getElement(RXElement.java:66)
at com.inductiveautomation.rm.archiver.RXArchiver.readObject(RXArchiver.java:137)
at com.inductiveautomation.rm.editor.RMEditorClipboard.getShapesFromClipboard(RMEditorClipboard.java:243)
at com.inductiveautomation.rm.editor.RMEditorClipboard.paste(RMEditorClipboard.java:141)
at com.inductiveautomation.rm.editor.RMEditorClipboard.paste(RMEditorClipboard.java:121)
at com.inductiveautomation.rm.editor.RMEditor.paste(RMEditor.java:707)
at com.inductiveautomation.reporting.designer.workspace.design.DesignerPanel.doRMPaste(DesignerPanel.java:120)
at com.inductiveautomation.reporting.designer.workspace.ReportingResourceWorkspace$ReportDesignerEditActionHandler.doPaste(ReportingResourceWorkspace.java:759)
at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer.IgnitionDesigner$Handler.handlePaste(IgnitionDesigner.java:2863)
at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer.IgnitionDesigner$Handler$15.actionPerformed(IgnitionDesigner.java:2421)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Actions.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.SwingUtilities.notifyAction(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.JComponent.processKeyBinding(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.JMenuBar.processBindingForKeyStrokeRecursive(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.JMenuBar.processBindingForKeyStrokeRecursive(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.JMenuBar.processBindingForKeyStrokeRecursive(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.JMenuBar.processKeyBinding(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.KeyboardManager.fireBinding(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.KeyboardManager.fireKeyboardAction(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.JComponent.processKeyBindingsForAllComponents(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.JComponent.processKeyBindings(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/javax.swing.JComponent.processKeyEvent(Unknown Source)
at com.inductiveautomation.rm.viewer.RMViewer.processKeyEvent(RMViewer.java:943)
at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
at com.inductiveautomation.rm.editor.RMEditor.processEvent(RMEditor.java:1029)
at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager.redispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.dispatchKeyEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.preDispatchKeyEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.typeAheadAssertions(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$5.run(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$5.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at com.inductiveautomation.snap.swing.RibsEventQueue.dispatchEvent(RibsEventQueue.java:99)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: com.inductiveautomation.rm.base.RMException: Element type "text" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".
at com.inductiveautomation.rm.archiver.RXElementParser.fatalError(RXElementParser.java:184)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.seekCloseOfStartTag(Unknown Source)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(Unknown Source)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.inductiveautomation.rm.archiver.RXElementParser.parse(RXElementParser.java:74)
at com.inductiveautomation.rm.archiver.RXElement.getElement(RXElement.java:64)
... 61 common frames omitted
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "text" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".
at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
... 78 common frames omitted