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Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as Zen Buddhism. Zen school was strongly influenced by Taoism and developed as a distinct school of Chinese Buddhism.

In InterSystems Data Platform Zen is a name for MVC web application framework for rapid software development.

Documentation.

Question Ruslan K · Dec 4, 2025

Hello. Here is   XData ReportDefinition

/// XML that defines the contents of this report.
XData ReportDefinition [ XMLNamespace = "http://www.intersystems.com/zen/report/definition]
{
<report xmlns="http://www.intersystems.com/zen/report/definitionname='bills' runonce="true">
<attribute name='runTime' expression='$ZDT($H,3)/>
    <attribute name='runBy' expression='..GetUserName()/>
    <attribute name='author' expression='..ReportAuthor'/>
<group name='bills' OnCreateResultSet="CreateRS">
<parameter name="MonthDt" expression="..Month"/>
<parameter name="Company" expression

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Question Ruslan K · Jan 8

Hello
How to hide a table completely in pdf generation when a row is empty?
A table has style with borders
<table  group="services" removeEmpty="1" style="border:1px solid black;">
     <item field="TotalSum" suppressEmpty="1" />

     <item field="TotalAvSum" suppressEmpty="1" />
 </table>
With 
removeEmpty="1" and  suppressEmpty="1"  all data are hidden when a row is empty but top and bottom borders are remain on the page.
How to hide also table's top and bottom borders when a data row is empty?

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Question Mary George · Oct 8, 2025

Hi Team, 

Can I please check if anyone has built a simple web interface for maintaining custom SQL lookup class.   

We have a simple persistent class in HealthShare which is used for storing Pathology test codes. Test codes in this lookup class is used for message filtering and applying additional logic when processing pathology results/orders. 

We want to make this class available to external users from pathology (not the usual management portal users) to maintain so that they can add/edit/delete test codes as required.

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Question Colin Brough · Aug 15, 2023

We need to generate a PDF file from an HL7 message as it passes through an Ensemble production. Looking for examples, tutorials, documentation aligned to our scenario.
We are currently using Ensemble (so can't use InterSystems Reports at the moment). Thinking Zen reports...
We can get from HL7 to XML OK, following Introduction to InterSystems Health Connect - YouTube (see c.1:11:00-1:13:00)

We can follow the Zen tutorials to a point - but they mostly get the data being presented in the report from SQL queries rather than from an in-bound XML

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Question Carl Maklad · Apr 8, 2024

I am working on a Zen page that has a table pane with the maxRows set to a default value. My customer is coming back with the following request of making that value bigger & begs the question whether the new value can be configurable. I looked @ the documentation, and forgive me if I missed, and I couldn't find anywhere that it can. Am I wrong? Thanks.

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Question Colin Brough · Aug 9, 2023

We are about to embark on a development where we'll be taking HL7 messages and generating PDF reports from them. We are wanting to future proof our development efforts within the constraints of our currently deployed platform and future upgrade options. We are currently running on Ensemble 2018, though an upgrade to Iris is anticipated - at some indeterminate point in the future. We are aware of Zen Reports and InterSystems Reports (Logi) as technology options, but are also unclear on some details. A roadmap and guidance from those who've done this kind of thing before would be great!

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Question Nezla · Jun 6, 2023

Hi Guys, I'm resending this because I sent on the weekend and looks like it has not been noticed much 

I'm not that familiar in using Javascript in Zen pages, so basically we have a priting utility (app) that requires us to add a bit of JavaScript call to facilitate printing from our Zen pages as below:

So I added XData link pasted the required script, is this the correct way?

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Question Andy Stobirski · Nov 1, 2022

Hi 

I have a  Zen Page with tablepane which has a datasource in a different namespace to that of the Zen Page. When the page is run, no data is returned and the tablepane is not populate,  even though the rerferenced table contains dat.

The tablePane code is as follows:

<tablePane id="DataExtractionCurrent"
	showZebra="true"
	cellSpacing="2px"
	OnCreateResultSet="DataExtractionCurrent">
</tablePane>

The OnCreateResultSet points to the following method:

Method DataExtractionCurrent(Output tSC As %Status, pInfo As %ZEN.Auxiliary.
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Question Kevin Kindschuh · Nov 3, 2022

Is there a way for web application to set its session timeout value according to the user role or other criteria?

In this case, I have a custom production monitor page, and I want to set 5 minutes for most users but allow managers a longer time or those displaying pages on a monitor a longer time.

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Question Andy Stobirski · Sep 5, 2022

Hi All

I'm building a ZEN page that will dispay HL7 from a database, and am currently displaying it an textarea.

 Is the HL7 viewer that is displayed when HL7 message is selected in a visual trace available as an out of the box tool I can plug into a webpage?

 

Andy

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Question Michael Davidovich · Aug 16, 2022

Have a Zen report with a huge query that we are trying to break down and be more efficient.  

Looks like Zen only wants to take a result set class as the data (or XML, but writing to a file to generate these reports is probably even more overhead).

Is there a way I can move through a result set object, delete rows I don't want based on some objectscript commands and the pass that to the report?

Or can I pass a dynamic object?

Thanks.

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Question Tom Cross · Jul 20, 2022

I am reaching out to find out if anyone has come across a similar dilemma. 

In my current role, I have been asked around the best way to design some patient labels for a client.

 I primarily would stick to what I know and veered towards designing the label in ZPL and then creating a Abstract Class to call the ZPL code, however I have been asked why not to design via JReport. The patient labels will be processed via thermal ink printers primarily Zebras, I am wondering if anyone out there has come across this or  would recommend to stick to what you know.

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Question Con Skordis · Jun 24, 2022

What is the correct way to specify rowspan and colspan in a ZEN PDF report using <Item> <Caption> 

I am specifying rowspan in the <Caption> tag after the <Item> but it's not working.

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