# Fill a report template designed elsewhere

Publish / report

A variant of [Make a report](https://meridian.online/operations/make-a-report).

Run rows through a report definition made in a separate report designer and render the output.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/make-a-report/fill-a-report-template-designed-elsewhere>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet; it would live in Brightfield's view. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#make-a-report)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`KNIME Reporting Runtime (BIRT) (extension)`](https://api.hub.knime.com/extensions/org.knime.features.reporting.runtime) (read 2026-09-27)
- Pentaho Data Integration: [`Pentaho Reporting Output`](https://docs.pentaho.com/pdia-data-integration/9.3-data-integration/pdi-transformation-steps-reference-overview) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tJasperOutput`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/jasper/jasper-component) (read 2026-09-27)
- Talend: [`tJasperOutputExec`](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/8.0/jasper/jasper-component) (read 2026-09-27)
