Images of all current formats (e.g GIF, JPG, BMP) can be loaded from a disk drive or from pre-existing database images to an image element. There are three kinds of images:
Fixed image
Link to hard disk
Database image (from image management or an OMNITREND image)
The fixed image was loaded from an external source to the image element and is integrated as a copy. With a link to the hard disk, only the link, and not a copy, is saved in the image element. Large images can then be loaded faster. The database image refers to an image in the database and is loaded from there. If the image stored in the database changes, so does the image in the newly created live reports (not with PDF reports or live documents). The advantage of DB images lies in their reusability, quick access and memory space-saving feature, since only the reference to the image is stored in the image element.
The Tutorial (extra package, not included with this Help) on OMNITREND Web contains a film demonstrating how to load images from the database and a disk drive, edit them, change their sizes and replace them.
You can draw a frame around the image and assign different attributes to the border, like line thickness, type and color.
Selecting "on the following pages of report" causes the image element to be printed on each page of the report based on this template. This is a good idea, for example, for a logo that is to appear on each page. Selecting "just at first page of report" prints this image element once only; an empty field then occurs at this place on the subsequent pages.
Checking "Keep aspect ratio" retains the width-to-height ratio of the image. Deselecting the check box scales the image to the dimensions of the image element.
If the image is visible in the template, you can access a context menu with different zoom levels by right-clicking the image. Selecting one of these zoom levels scales the image and the size of the image element is automatically adjusted.
Once the image is selected, the element is displayed activated with other items allowing further changing of the size in arbitrary stages and displacement to another position.
If you click "Load image" after having changed to "Image management," a dialog box opens for selecting a database image.
The images are alphabetically ordered; for each image a description, the time of creation and the author are also displayed. Selecting the image and clicking "OK" applies the image reference to the image element or replaces the previous image. After the "Image properties" dialog box is closed, the image in its original size is inserted in the template. Any previous scaling is then lost and you will have to adjust the image to the desired size again.