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Using The Report Designer
Insight Advanced Reports includes a fully featured report designer for modifying existing reports
or creating new reports. With the report designer you can:
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Add formatted text and graphics to your report
Add tables of columnar data with coloured cells, gridlines and text
Add drawing shapes to your report
Add dynamic graphs to your report
Add HTML text to your report
Add Insight data fields to your report
Actions Toolbar
Variables Pane
Objects Toolbar
Preview Pane
Properties Pane
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Workspace
The actions toolbar lets you open, save or print the report; cut, copy and paste
elements in the report; align items on the report; and perform other operations on the
report.
The objects toolbar lets you place text, graphics, shapes, graphs, barcodes and other
items on the report.
The variables pane lets you drag Insight data fields onto the report. When the report is
run, these fields are replaced with information from the Insight database.
The preview pane shows a thumbnail preview of the report.
The properties pane shows properties about the currently selected item.
The workspace is where you make changes to the report layout.
For more information on using the report designer, refer to the on-line help (click the help menu
and choose “Contents” in the report designer).
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You can open the built-in report templates to see how they work or to adapt them to your
requirements.
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