Customized interviewing reports follow the same rules as standard interviewing reports (see How do the standard reports work? except that the Interviewing activity does not specify the table itself. Instead, you specify the table yourself inside the CreateReports sub in DPM, and the Interviewing activity calls this function when it runs the report.

You also supply an .mdd file containing texts required for your report. The Interviewing activity opens this file and passes it to the CreateReports sub in the MDMTexts parameter. This file defines the name and description to be used for the report when it is displayed by the Interviewing activity, and is used internally by the CreateReports function to retrieve texts (possibly used as category names) so that your report can be translated.