How to .... deploy customized composite groups to other projects, clients, users

Saving a group of report items as a Customized Composite Group is a powerful feature to re-use larger reporting items with other templates.

When closing the host application, the customized composite groups are stored in *.ircg or *.rdl files.  The storage location depends on the host application and is listed below.

By copying the *.ircg or *.rdl files to other user's or project folders these composite groups can be shared with others. (Note:  Moving composite groups across applications and revisions has not been tested.)

Storage locations for composite group files:

• Open LAB CDS EZChrom:
  \<Project name>\Template\CompositeGroups\XXX.ircg
• Open LAB CDS ChemStation (Windows 7):
  \Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Agilent Technologies\Agilent ChemStation\2.091.0.0\IntelligentReporter\CompositeGroups\XXX.ircg
• Open LAB Data Analysis (Windows 7):
  \Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Agilent Technologies, Inc\Agilent OpenLAB Data Analysis\1.93.0\IntelligentReporter\CompositeGroups\XXX.ircg
• OpenLAB ECM Intelligent Reporter (Windows XP):
  Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Agilent Technologies\Agilent OpenLAB Intelligence Reporter\2.1.40.0\CompositeGroup_XXX.rdl

(originally posted in OpenLAB Forum: https://zohodiscussions.com/openlabcdsforum#Topic/68030000000062011

2013 February 15

by betrich)