Text Formatter User Guide

44. Basic Customizations - Standard Product Main Method

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Next, we have the "generateProducts" method which conducts the general flow of product execution. It consists of the following methods and steps:
_getVariables: Get the variables entered by the user from the VariableList definition and set up any product specific variables.
_getAreaList: Get the list of edit areas over which the product will run.
_determineTimeRanges: Calculate the time ranges over which we'll need to sample the data.
_sampleData: Sample the data
_preProcessProduct: Create the product header.
Now we loop through each edit area producing a header (_preProcessArea), the product text (_makeProduct), and a footer (_postProcessArea).
_postProcessProduct: Create product footer.
Return the resulting text string.