Reports – Field Descriptions
Report settings fields
Field
Description
Type
Displays the report definition type:
Report
Custom
Name
Specify a suitable name for your report. The default name given by Planon ProCenter is <new report>. You can overwrite this name with a meaningful name of your own.
Title
Specify a suitable title for your report.
Title position
Specify the position of the title in the report.
Only show group lines
Only include in the report those fields that were designated as group fields. This option will result in a concise list. If no group fields have been included in the report, this option is disabled.
Show group fields in detail lines
Insert an extra column for each group field. The name of the group will be repeated in each detail line. This option is disabled if no group fields have been included in the report.
Page size
Select the preferred paper size from the list. You may want to check in advance whether the selected size is also supported by your printer.
Orientation
Select the required paper orientation for the report: portrait or landscape.
Font for title
Select an appropriate font type and size for the title of the report.
Font for heading
Select an appropriate font type and size for the headings in the report.
Font for detail lines
Select an appropriate font type and size for the detail lines in the report.
Background color
Set a background color for the title bars in your report.
Include date/time
Print the current date in the footer of your report.
Include reference date
Select the check box to print the current reference date in the header of the report (output).
This option is only available for a report of type Report and works for PDF and HTML (not for CSV, XLS(X)).
Mask
Set a mask (=notation format) for date/time fields included in your report definition.
You can either select a mask from the list or compose one yourself.
For more information, see Mask.
Include page number
Print page numbers in the footer of your report.
Specify company name
Print the company name in the footer of your report.
Company name
Enter the company name to be displayed in the footer of the report.
Column width setting
Indicate how the width of a column should be determined for subreports:
Autofit: the column width is determined by the text width. If the width of the text exceeds the available space, the column will be adjusted to the maximum available space.
Fixed column: the text width is fixed. If the width of the columns exceeds the available space, the text will be hidden.
This setting is only available for report type mail merge (and for document type doc, docx, ttf).
Default date mask
Select a default mask for dates.
When empty, the standard value as defined in code is used for date fields that are added to a report (EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy). When filled, new date time fields which are added to the report will use the Default date mask instead.
Note that this only works for fields that are newly added to the report, and changing the Default date mask does not change the mask value of fields already on the report.
This field is only available on the main report settings, but is used also for date/time fields added to subreports.
Default date-time mask
Select a default mask for date-times.
When empty, the standard value as defined in code is used for date-time fields that are added to a report (EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy HH:mm). When filled, new date-time fields that are added to the report will use the Default date/time mask instead.
Note that this only works for fields that are newly added to the report, and changing the Default date/time mask does not change the mask value of fields already on the report.
This field is only available on the main report settings, but is used also for date/time fields added to subreports.
Default horizontal alignment
Specify a horizontal alignment that will be used by default.
The setting will be applied to newly added fields and will not affect fields already used in the report.
Default vertical alignment
Specify a vertical alignment that will be used by default.
The setting will be applied to newly added fields and will not affect fields already used in the report.