Utskriftsformat

You use Utskriftsformat to customise the printout to meet your specific requirements. You can also set parameters to make the Utskriftsformat behave like a simple export routine.

General

Process

All rows if no rows are selected

All rows are printed.

Only the active row if not rows are selected

Only the active row is printed.

Only selected rows

Only highlighted rows are printed.

Anm: When opening Page setup in a print dialog that includes form selection, the Process section will display the Process setting from the form's page setup. In this scenario the Process section has been disabled, as the Process setting from the print window is always used.

Orientation

Select if you want to print in portrait or landscape.

Paper

Choose paper size and paper source.

Pages at once

How many documents at a time are to be sent to the printer when printing documents. If you have "1" in the field, one document at a time will be printed. This can result in mixture of printouts from several people to the writer. If you have "0" in the field, all the documents will be printed in a batch print job, preventing other printouts from coming between the documents. This does not apply to list printouts such as balance lists for example. If you have "10" for example in the field when you print lists, they will be printed when "10" pages have been produced, and the system will start to build the next 10 pages.

First page no

Font scaling %

Page break level

The page element that will generate the page break. One standard method is to make a page break for each new main item if a window has a linked table, e.g. Order and Orderrad, when the page break level is 0, the system will try to print as many order lines as possible on each page regardless of whether it comes from the next order. This function is mainly used for account printouts, etc. when you wish to fill the page before the page break.

Copies

The number of copies per page and per document.

Shading on columns

• Using the default defined during installation (leave the check box as it is).
• Adding shading on columns to the print (select the check box).
• Printing without shading on columns (clear the check box).

Shading on break lines

• Using the default defined during installation (leave the check box as it is).
• Adding shading on break lines to the print (select the check box).
• Printing without shading on break lines (clear the check box).

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Printer...

Opens the Print setup dialog where you can set printer properties.

Remember

Saves the selected parameters.

OK

OK saves the layout for the printout.

Tips: The OK button is greyed out if you have chosen to write to file, and you have neither given a file name nor selected Generate unique file names.

File

When you choose to send a form printout to a file, you will not be able to retain the formatting of the form.

When you print your data to a file it is often so that you can process it in other applications, which you will either do yourself or send the data elsewhere. In this context there are two parameters, Start of field/End character and Field separator, which are crucial in determining how easy it is to process the data afterwards.

File name

Generate unique file names

An unique file name will be created. The file name will be based on the basis of the client ID and a sequence number.

Excel template name

Report name

Table heading

None

No heading will be printed out before the rows in a new table. A printout of an invoice, for example, will result in a clean printout of all data. The fields in the invoice heading will be printed line by line, with descriptions and values. No routines linked to report processing will be performed.

Name

The SQL names will appear. An empty string will be printed for "Calculated" columns, identical to memory columns, as none of them are in the database.

Number

The external number will be printed for all columns.

Mixed

The SQL name is printed for database columns and external numbers for "Calculated" columns and memory columns.

Start of field/End character

None

None is often used when the field separator is something other than space. If the field separator is space, you must select double quotes or single quotes. If not there is a risk that one field might be interpreted as several (example: an address contains blank characters and so is interpreted as several fields). Default for Excel.

Single quotes

Double quotes

Field separator

How you want the fields to be separated in the file.

Space

The fields in the file will be separated with a space.

Tab

The fields in the file will be separated with a tab. This is suitable for Microsoft Office Excel.

Comma

The fields in the file will be separated with a comma.

Semicolon

The fields in the file will be separated with a semicolon. This is suitable for Microsoft Office Excel.

Split text on multiple rows

A line break will be inserted for every 80 characters (approx.). This is suitable if you want to view the file in a text editor.

Include database and report name

Includes the name of the database and the report in the file.

Prefix header and lines

Head and line rows are marked in the printout. Head rows are marked (H), lines are marked (L).

Text from text table

Instead of the code referring to a text in the Text table, the text itself will then be printed.

Use comma as decimal separator

Convert from ANSI to OEM

Toggle this if the data does not have the correct appearance after being imported into another program (this affects national characters). Then try printing to file again.