Chapter 8. Elements

Table of Contents

8.1. Text
8.1.1. Properties
8.1.2. Selecting a database text
8.2. Images
8.2.1. Properties
8.2.2. Selecting a database image
8.3. Diagram
8.3.1. General properties
8.3.2. Display
8.3.3. Scaling
8.3.4. Filter
8.4. Table
8.4.1. General properties
8.4.2. Display
8.4.3. Font and Border
8.4.4. Filter
8.5. Event list
8.5.1. General properties
8.5.2. Display
8.5.3. Font and Border
8.5.4. Filter
8.6. Alarm
8.6.1. Alarm test
8.6.2. General properties
8.6.3. View
8.6.4. View options for list elements
8.6.5. Font and Border
8.6.6. Filter
8.7. Compliant List
8.7.1. Compliant list view
8.7.2. Font and Border
8.7.3. Filter settings
8.8. Selecting a data source

8.1. Text

Use the text element to position a text, located in a box, at an arbitrary position within the template. You can assign different properties to these texts.

There are two kinds of texts:

  • Fixed text

  • Database text

The fixed text is manually entered and the DB text is a default text in the database, from where it is loaded and displayed. If the text stored in the database changes, so do all texts in the newly created live reports (not with PDF reports or live documents). If you change the DB text in the text element, the text automatically becomes a fixed text and does not affect the text stored in the database. The change accordingly affects only the element just edited.

There are also placeholders that are filled during the runtime (in report creation):

Figure 8.1. Text element placeholder

Text element placeholder

Proceeding from left to right, the placeholders have the following functions:

  • Page number: The report generator replaces the page number placeholder with a serially assigned page number

  • Database name: The name of the database

  • Data source: The path of the data source is inserted depending on the "Section change" setting.

  • Date: The current data replaces the date placeholder when the report is generated.

  • Time: The current time is entered.

  • User: The user generating the report is entered here.

You can delete the entire content of the text input box by clicking "Delete text".

The Tutorial (extra package, not included with this Help) on OMNITREND Web contains a film demonstrating how to enter texts, load them from the database, edit them, change their attributes and replace them.

8.1.1. Properties

You can draw a frame about the text box and assign different attributes to the border, like line thickness, type and color.

Use the "Line break" button to fit the lines to the actual text box size automatically when generating the report.

You can align the text line by line on the left or right or center it by highlighting the lines and clicking the corresponding buttons.

Selecting "on the following pages of report" causes the text element to be printed on each page of the report based on this template. Selecting "just at first page of report" prints this text element once only; an empty field then occurs on the subsequent pages.

You can assign the following properties to the texts.

  • Font

  • Font size

  • Font color

  • Bold

  • Italics

  • Underline

Figure 8.2. Text properties

Text properties

8.1.2. Selecting a database text

Clicking "Load text" opens a dialog box for selecting the database text.

Figure 8.3. Selecting a database text

Selecting a database text

The text elements are alphabetically ordered; for each text a description, the time of creation and the author are also displayed. If no text has been entered or the text in the text element was deleted, the text is retained as a database text in the text element and changes if the database text is changed. If a text already occurs in the text field, the loaded text from the database is inserted in the existing text as of the cursor position.