Reporting: Excel, PDF Glen Bambrick Applications Engineer, IMGS
Aug 07, 2015
What FME can do for reporting..
Spreadsheet operations
Statistics, transpose, pivot
Excel reports
Reporting to PDF
Reporting Formats
Transformers
MapnikRasterizer
PDFPageFormatter
Partners
Avenza – MAPublisher – grids, labelling, symbols, etc – export to Geospatial PDF
Tetrad – Sitewise – demographic data, drivetimeanalysis, etc
Software
Tableau – see and understand data
Adobe Acrobat - georeferencing, measuring
Reporting Demographic data to Excel
AttributeRenaming – to match excel columns
AttributePivoter – to group data by rows and columns
Writer options
Templates and Workbooks
Excel uses named ranges for formulas, bookmarks, validation etc
Feature type - <sheetname>/<namedrange>
Attribute – CUMULATIVE.formula = SUM(C2:N2)
PDF Writing
PDFStyler – basic element, text and line styling
PDFPageFormatter
- more complex page layout
PDF Example – La Rioja
Orthophoto Map:
Incredibly detailed
Use of Inset maps, Annotation and Grids
Easily Updated
Thanks to:
Ana García de Vicuña Ruiz de Argandoña
Gobierno de La Rioja – Spain
Thank You!
Questions?
For more information:
Blog posting on automating Excel tasks