A report is a listing of your catalog's disks, directories and files. GTKtalog reports are in text format because today it is the best format to exchange with other applications such as databases. We'll think to xml for a future release :).
Open the Create report window clicking on the toolbar "Create report" button. There are many parameters to change a report output. In this chapter "items" is an alias for "disks, directories and files" and "record" an alias for "a disk, directory or file line in the report"
Disk : Select 'All disk' to include all disks in the report. To limit the report to one disk, select the disk name in the list.
Category : Select '(All)' to include all disks, directories and files in the report. To limit the report to one category of disks directories and files, select the category name in the list. Select '(None)' if you want only the disks, directories and files with no category in your report.
Report fields : Check the fields you want to see in the report.
Report options :
Include VFS content : include files within VFS in the report
Include directories : Write a line, before the lines of its files, for each directory (within or without vfs)
Only items with description : Only items with a description will be listed in this report
Only items with category : Only items with a category will be listed in this report
CSV (Comma Separated Value files). These are options for tuning the records formatting.
Separator : Type the character(s) that will separate the fields of a record. A comma is the default separator character
Put quotes around fields :
If checked, each field within a line will be enclosed by quotes. Ex : "field1","field2"
If unchecked, fields will only separated by the separator character(s). Ex : field1,field2
Remove the End Of Line characters
If checked, between two record lines there is nothing (only one "line feed character" : 0xa)
If unchecked, between two record lines there is one blank line (two "line feed characters")
Add the legend
If checked, informations such as the fields included in the report, the sort method ... will appear in the report
If unchecked, only record lines will appear in the report
Output File: type the output file's path or use the file selector clicking on "..."
Click on the "Create report" button to generate the report.
The message "Report successfull" will inform you when the report is done. Go and see the result with your favorite text editor.