Reporting
User Guide
Reference
: Print and Export Reports
Print and Export Reports
To print and export a report, click
Run Report
on the
AVEVA
Toolbar. The
Run Report
window is then displayed:
Note:
In order to export multi-byte characters from a report into various formats (like PDF, PNG, RTF, etc.), it is advisable to use the Arial Unicode MS font that supports multi-byte character sets.
The toolbar provides the same facilities as that of the
Preview
Tab (see
Preview Reports
), plus the following:
Print
Used to print the current report. Opens a standard Windows Print Options window.
Quick Print
Used to print the report using the default printer settings.
Page Setup
Used to configure the report page. Opens a standard Windows Page Setup window.
Export and Save
Report
Used to export the report as a file. Displays the following menu, from which the file format is selected:
Once the file format is selected a window is displayed from which export options relevant to the selected file type can be selected, for example:
Click
Ok
.
A standard Save As window is then displayed which is used to specify the location that the file is to be saved to. Click
Save
to complete the save.
Export and E-mail
Report
Used to save the report as a file and send the file via e-mail. Displays the following menu, from which the file format is selected:
Note:
When saving certain data types to Excel from a report, the value comes out as #Value. This occurs when the data type is not recognised as a particular value type by Excel. The work around is to output it as text. When saving the report to XLSX from the
XLSX Export Options
window, set
Text export mode
to
Text
. The values will now be converted to text and displayed correctly.
Once the file format is selected a window is displayed from which options relevant to the selected file type can be selected, for example:
Click
Ok
.
A standard Save As window is then displayed which is used to specify the location that the file is to be saved to. Click
Save
to complete the save.
Publish to AVEVA NET
Used to export report data to AVEVA NET. Refer to the appropriate module documentation for details.
Note:
Background colours are not included when a report is exported to RTF or MHT format.
Note:
Watermarks are not included when a report is exported to HTML format.
Separate options will be displayed for the following formats:
•
PDF-Specific Export Options
•
HTML-Specific Export Options
•
MHT-Specific Export Options
•
RTF-Specific Export Options
•
XLS or XLSX -Specific Export Options
•
CSV-Specific Export Options
•
TXT-Specific Export Options
•
Image-Specific Export Options.
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