Report design

Once the data set has been created, it is time to add individual content element to the report.

Adding elements

Text fields can be added by drag&dropping them from the 'Report Explorer'. Elements of other types are added from the left-hand toolbar. Note that the type of element placed in the report cannot be changed later.

For example, creation of a report listing all Services together with their 'isTemplate' flags would involve the following:

1. Add two 'label' elements (from the left-hand toolbar) to the Report Header and type 'Service Name' in the first label and 'isTemplate?' in the second one.
2. Set appropriate format for the header elements, e.g. change their font attribute to 'bold'. You can select multiple elements by <Shift + mouse click>.
3. Drag & drop attributes 'SERVICENAME' and 'ISSERVICETEMPLATE' from the 'Services' tree in the 'Report Explorer' to the 'Details' part of the report.

Adding a picture to the header

1. Drag&drop an 'image' element (from the left-hand toolbar) to the page header area.
2. Double-click the element. A dialog 'Edit Content...' opens.
3. Click the button on the right of the 'Source' field in the dialog and select the source image.

   

Adding other elements to the header

1. Drag&drop a 'label' element to the center of the page header area and type the report name ('Services' in our example). Set a larger font size.
2. Drag&drop a 'message' element to the right-hand part of the page header area and set the content to "$(report.date, date, dd.MM.yyyy)" to display the date of printing in runtime.

Create footer content

To display current page in the footer area, do the following:

1. Go to the Report Explorer 'Data' tab, locate the 'Functions' item and call the 'Add Functions...' action.
2. In the 'Add Function...' dialog, go to folder 'Common', select the 'Page of Pages' function and click 'Ok'. Then drag & drop the function in the page footer area.

   

3. Drag and drop additional 'label' elements to the footer as appropriate.

   The report design might look like this:

   

   Clicking the "small blue eye" icon in the top left-hand corner displays a report preview.

   

4. Having finalized the report design, save the report definition.

   The resulting file with .prpt file extension will be needed to import the report to Valuemation.