Components - Overview

Print Templates are collections of printable fields, images and graphics that together produce portions (segments) of the printed page. These fields contain either static data (headings, logo images, underscores) that are defined at the template design time, or they can contain dynamic data (text, images, graphics) that are formatted by the calling Report Procedure and passed to the template for display.

The following components are available:

Field Content Used for
Dynamic Print field Dynamic Display of strings (single- or multi-line) with textual or numeric content
Static Print field Static Display of headings and captions
Underline Static Drawing single or double underlines
Separator Static Divides portions of the Print Template into segments (field groups) that are printed as coherent units
Logo Static Display of a static image
Pie Chart Dynamic Drawing of a pie chart
Bar Chart Dynamic Drawing of a bar chart
Line Chart Dynamic Drawing of a line chart (XY plot)

Dynamic fields are passed to the Report Procedure as receptacles in the Print Template Inspector that the procedure variables connect to, passing their content (data) to the Print Template for subsequent display.