Headers and Footers tab settings

Adding headers and footers lets you insert text or images to help define certain elements in a report. The Headers and Footers tab is divided into a Headers area and a Footers area. Each area is divided into three sections: Left section, Center section, and Right section. Use the sections to align header information to the left, center, or right side of the header or footer.

This topic contains the following procedures:

  • Add header and footer text

  • Delete header and footer text

  • Modify header and footer text

  • Format header and footer text

  • Insert an image into a header or footer

  • Modify a header or footer image

  • Change the report starting page number

Note

Management Reporter accesses the regional settings of your Windows Operating System for the period description information. For example, if you specify the Autotext code of @DateLong, and the day of the week appears in your report headers but you do not want day of the week, you must change the regional settings for your machine’s operating system and remove dddd (day of the week) from the Long Date definition. For more information about the regional settings, see your operating system documentation. For information about Autotext options, see Autotext descriptions.

  1. In Report Designer, open the report definition to modify. Click the Headers and Footers tab.

  2. Select the row to add text to.

  3. Enter text into the selected row:

    • To enter custom text, type the text into the row.

    • To use an AutoText code, click Insert AutoText, select an AutoText category, and then click an AutoText code. For more information about the codes, see Autotext descriptions.

      Note

      AutoText headers are supported for FD and WKS column types only. To use AutoText headers, the column must use a period and a year with a base or a value.

  1. In Report Designer, open the report definition to modify. Click the Headers and Footers tab.

  2. In the Headers or Footers area, in the Left section, Center section, or Right section, click a row and press the Delete key.

  1. In Report Designer, open the report definition to modify. Click the Headers and Footers tab.

  2. In the Headers or Footers area, in the Left section, Center section, or Right section, double-click the row that contains the text to modify, and then modify the text, as necessary.

  1. In Report Designer, open the report definition to modify. Click the Headers and Footers tab.

  2. Click the row that contains the text to format.

  3. Select the font style that you want to apply from the Formatting toolbar, or click the appropriate formatting button on the toolbar.

  1. In Report Designer, open the report definition to modify. Click the Headers and Footers tab.

    Note

    Management Reporter supports most file types for images. This includes files that have extensions of .bmp, .jpg, and .png. Text and images cannot be used in the same section.

  2. Click the row to add an image to.

  3. Click Images.

  4. Select an image from the list, and then click Insert.

  5. If the image is not loaded in Management Reporter, click Add. The Open dialog box opens.

  6. Locate the image to use, and then click Open.

  7. Select the image, and then click Insert to insert the image into the report.

  1. In Report Designer, open the report definition to modify. Click the Headers and Footers tab.

  2. Click Images.

  3. Select an image to modify, and then click Modify.

  4. In the Modify Image dialog box, you can change the following settings:

    • To change an image name, type a new name in the Image Name field.

    • To change an image size, enter a new value in the Scale relative to original image size field.

    • To replace an image, click Replace Image. In the Open dialog box, select a different image, and then click Open.

  5. Click OK to close the Open dialog box.

Change the report starting page number

  1. In Report Designer, open the report definition to modify. Click the Headers and Footers tab.

  2. In the Start page numbering at field, enter a starting page number.

See Also

Report definition

Autotext descriptions

Row definition

Report tab settings