REPORT

From File->Print menu you can print various features of your project. The most important print tool is report (File->Print->Report): its a completely editable document where you can insert a wide series of details. It can be simply printed or even saved as a file.



The template

This is the main concept to be understood and it's the base of your report: here you have to insert a series of tags which will be analyzed by the software and substituted with text, tables or images. This substitution process is performed everytime you pass from template to report tab (which is readonly).



Tags

Tags are the key elements of every report. Suppose you want to print the project name on the report:

There are several kind of tags:



Tag options

Parameters can be passed to table, standard views and views tags to control their behaviour. In Template tab, a tag without any option has the form "<tag>"; table tags with options have the form:

"<tag?column1:column2:column3>"

In this way you can specify wich columns of the table will be printed, hiding the rest (every column will be printed if you don't specify any option). Standard views and views tags with options have the form:

"<tag?option1=value1:option2=value2>"



Text tags options

These are text tags options:



Table tag options

Here are the available table tags with their relative columns:

Other tags:



Standard views and custom views tag options

These are all the options you can pass to standard views and custom views tags:

Examples:

<Areas_view?sim=0:width=300:height=200:gradient=no>

<View_1?width=800:height=300:ratio=viewport_x:align=left:border=0>



Plot tag options

Plot tags are the ones used, for example, to draw plots about boundary conditions' curves. Here you are the list of available options:



Section elements analysis tag options

If software supports analysis on section elements (for example, Glaser), these are the options you can pass to these kind of tags:



Date tag options

Date tag accepts just one option, format. The format you can pass is the same specified here. Example: <date?format=%x>



Gradient tag options



The text editor

The text editor you'll use to work with your reports is very similar to other text editors you should be familiar with. You'll be able to edit font and paragraph styles, insert text boxes and tables and much more. Remember that templates can be saved and loaded from "File" menu; in this way you can create your own collection to be used by your projects. To make this process easier, on the right side of the editor, you'll find a completely customizable list of templates.