Values and source preservation

Use the value type listed for each attribute. Write JSON values in <default>: "0012" is a string, 12 a number, false a Boolean and null null. Leaving out <default> means no default is supplied. Queries and Lua scripts use literal text or CDATA, even when the text looks like JSON. Items remain in the order you write them. Do not repeat containers such as <sources> or <outputs>; put all their entries inside one container. Unknown fields and conflicting settings are errors. Escape XML entities, or use CDATA; split a literal CDATA terminator across sections. XML newline normalization applies to authored literal CR; use 
 when a carriage return must survive. Export handles this explicitly.

To write the whole report as JSON inside XML, use <definition> as the only child of <report> and omit all report attributes. <layout> stores a visual document layout as JSON; choose either a layout or a PDF template for an output. <table-plan> stores table selections, filters and ordering as JSON; its sources and parameters must match those selections.

If the guided editor is available in your installation, switching to it asks you to confirm that comments and formatting may be replaced. Custom scripts and templates are edited in XML.