# Reports

Reports about the impact scenario project are generated using QGIS composer templates. The default template is being shipped with the plugin, but you can easily create your own templates in QGIS and use them as basis for your reports.

Localized templates are supported via the following simple schema:

if there is a specified template called `/path/to/template/foo.qpt` then the plugin looks in the template directory `/path/to/template/` for a file called file `foo-LANG.qpt`, where “LANG” is the language code of the system locale.

If such a file exists it will be used for report creation, otherwise the original template `/path/to/template/foo.qpt` will be used.

## Report Template Elements

A Template contains the next three groups of elements:

- Static elements.
- Elements containing tokens for replacement.
- Elements that are directly updated by the renderer.

### Static Elements

These are elements which are not changed during report generation, e.g. some logos/images, additional texts, etc. You can safely remove such elements or replace them with your own as needed.

### Elements containing tokens for replacement

In this case the element name is not significant, only the token(s) it contains. At render time any of the tokens in these elements will be replaced with translated content (if an alternative locale is in effect) from the plugin according to the keywords listed below in this document.

### Elements that are directly updated by the renderer

In this case any content that may be present in the element is completely replaced by the realtime map renderer, although certain styling options (e.g. graticule settings on the map) will remain in effect.

This elements are recognized by their ID’s and currently the plugin supports the following elements:

- safe-logo — QGIS composer image, which will be used for displaying InaSAFE logo with web-site url.

- organisation-logo — QGIS composer image, which will be used for displaying organisation logo. By default a combined supporters logo is used. To use custom logo image, set the path to your PNG file in the plugin Options dialog (see Options for details).

- impact-map — QGIS composer map, which will be used for displaying the impact scenario.

- impact-legend — QGIS composer legend, which will be used for displaying the legend of the impact scenario.

- impact-report — QGIS composer label, which will be used for displaying the impact report table.

  Note

  As QGIS composer doesn’t support automatic resizing elements, based on their contents, make sure that label have dimensions large enough to show full table.

## Replaceable Keywords

This section describes tokenised keywords that are passed to the map template. To insert any of these keywords into the map template, simply enclose the key in [] (e.g. [place-name]) and it will be replaced by the text value (e.g. Tondano). The list includes static phrases which have been internationalised (and so they will be displayed in the language of the selected map local, defaulting to English where no translation is available).

The following tokenized keywords are supported:

- impact-title — title of the impact scenario map.
- date — date of the assessment.
- time — time of the assessment.
- safe-version — version of the plugin used.
- disclaimer — disclaimer text. By default used next text: “InaSAFE has been jointly developed by Indonesian Government-BPNB, Australian Govenment-AIFDR and the World Bank-GFDRR. These agencies and the individual software developers of InaSAFE take no responsibility for the correctness of outputs from InaSAFE or decisions derived as a consequence.” To use custom disclaimer text, enter desired text the plugin Options dialog (see Options for details).

## Custom templates

You have a few options to customise the template without doing any programming. There are three primary ways you can achieve this:

- Moving replaceable keywords into different elements, or removing them completely.
- Changing template elements look and feel (e.g. setting up fonts, colors, borders, etc), moving the template elements themselves around or adding / removing them completely.
- Creating your own template from scratch and using it instead of default one.

The default template is provided as `inasafe/safe_qgis/resources/qgis-composer-templates/inasafe.qpt` and can be modified by opening the template using the QGIS map composer, making your changes and then overwriting the template or saving it in any directory.

You should take care to test your template changes before using it in a production environment.

Also in addition to default template you can have as many custom templates as you want. Just create templates, put them in some folder somewhere in filesystem and go to Plugins ‣ InaSAFE ‣ InaSAFE Options or click on the InaSAFE plugin toolbar’s options icon. In Options dialog specify Report template setting. It should contain full path to the folder with your custom templates.

Contact info@inasafe.org for more information. Source code available on GitHub! Please file a ticket if you have discovered an issue.
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