Summary designer

All the buttons from the toolbar are explained below.

The status bar displays the following information.

	Meaning	Description

Actions

Within the summary designer, create the design for your summary to be printed.

New summary

By clicking the | |===== ========= ====New in the toolbar, a new summary is inserted, all unsaved changes to the current summary are lost.

Using the Save the summary is saved in your database. When you open your database on another computer, all your summaries are still available.

If the current summary is stored in your database, the Delete available. You can delete the current summary by clicking the Delete button, this action in irreversible.

In the Summary box you determine the properties of your report.

Enter a clear name for your summary here, this name will be used within the programme to indicate this summary. For example in the summary browser. This text will not appear on the print result.

Enter a short description for your summary here, this description is used within the programme to indicate this summary. For example, in the summary browser. This text does not appear on the print result.

Select the title field of the summary here, this field will be printed in the header on each page of your summary.

Determines whether your report should be printed in portrait (False) or landscape (True).

If you print an image row, the image is always automatically scaled to fit. It calculates whether the width or height of the image is too big for the cell and scales the image down accordingly. This means that if an image does fit in the cell, no scaling is needed.

Via this option you can specify that if an image does fit in a cell and therefore does not need to be resized, it will, however, be enlarged to fit perfectly in the cell. This results in all images being uniform in size.

Specifies that the width of the key column is determined automatically. The key column is the first column in which the field name is displayed. The width is determined by the longest field title.

This option applies only when the Key column width automatic to False is set. With this option, you define the width of the key column as a percentage of the total available width.

With this option you can set the margins yourself, the margins determine the distance the between the edge of the paper and the printing surface. If this option is set to False the default margin value from the printer driver is used. If this option is set to True is set to True, the entered margins are used.

The unit of this property is 'Hundreds of an inch'. 
1 hundredth of an inch is 25.4/100 = 0.254 mm

Defines the margins to be used when the option Use custom margins at True is set.

If the Show margins in the toolbar is checked, the margins are also displayed in the print preview and the actual printout on paper. The blue box shows the physically printable area for this paper according to the printer driver. The red frame shows the margins as you set them if the Use customised margins is on, if it is off the default margins are displayed.

There is no check whether the margins you set can be physically printed, therefore parts may fall off the paper.

Within the framework Rules you choose which dates to print on the summary.

The line list displays all lines to be printed on the summary. The order in the list corresponds to the order of the lines on paper.

Using the toolbar, add a new rule, all fields of the entity as you designed them are available. It is also possible to add the same rule several times.

When a rule is selected in the list, you can use the toolbar to delete the rule.

To adjust the order of the lines, you can move each line up and down when it is selected in the list.

Of the selected rule in the rule list, you will see the properties in the box below the list.

By default, the key column has the header corresponding to the name of the line you have selected, however, it is also possible to customise this text. This allows you to choose the name yourself that you want to print for the specific line.

Here you define the height in pixels of the rule on the summary.

The following hotkeys are valid across the entire window, they do not depend on the focus on a particular component

The following keyboard shortcuts are only valid when the focus is on the line list is