It is with this dialog that you are able to customize the layout of the report - and even change which fields are printed. The following overview is not intended as a complete tutorial on the Report Designer. It is intended to provide enough information to allow you to perform some simple report customization. If you need new reports - or would like us to customize existing reports - we provide that service at a reasonable hourly rate. If you would like to know more about this service - you can contact us at sales@timeacct.com.
The above screen shot shows the Report Designer. It is a standard 'Banded' report deigner. The Header band appears at the top of each page, the footer band appears at the bottom of each page - and a detail band is printed for each detail record. You can right click on any object on the form and change some of its properties.
Tool Bars
Alignment
This part of the toolbar is used to align the controls on the report. Select one or more fields on the report - and then click on a button.
Database Fielids
This tool bar is used to place fields on the report that are then linked to the database fields available for the report. See the Field Picker toolbar below for more infomation on linking report fields to database fields.
The first icon is the one that will be used most of the time. It is used for 99% of the fields on the default reports in Disk Triage.
Normal Fields
This tool bar is used to place fields on the report that are not linked to the database. The most common use of this would be to place Images and static text on the reports.
Field Picker
This tool bar is used to assign the database fields to the available fields of the database. The drop down on the left is used to pick the catagory of fields. There are two normal catagories - Header and Details. The Header catagory is used for fields in the header band. The Details catagory is used for fields in the detail band. Once you have selected the correct catagory (which depends on which report band you are in) - you then use the drop down to the Right to select the field you want to have printed in that location.
So - all you have to do to add a database field to the report - is choose the DBText icon - click on the band where you want it - then choose the catagory and field you want to link to that report field - and you are done.
In the full screen shot above - you can see that the DirName field is selected in the Detail band. As well in the field picker tool bar you can see that the Details catagory has been selected and the DirName database field has been selected from the field dropdown.
Font & Formatting
This tool bar allows you to change fonts, sizes, attributes and alignments for any field in the report.