Report preview window
Introduction
The Report preview window is a document-like window that can be used for tabular preview of selected entities or results.
Many principles are shared with Engineering Report, therefore many instructions related to using of the Report preview window will be identical to instruction related to Engineering report.
Opening the Report preview
The procedure for the opening of the Preview window for non-results tables:
- In the graphical window of SCIA Engineer select the entities that should be included into the preview
- Go to Main menu > File > Print > Report preview
- The preview window is opened and tables are displayed
The procedure for opening Preview window for result tables
The report preview window can be also opened from the SCIA Spotlight.
Note: If the Preview window has been already opened, its content is replaced with the appropriate new tables.
Printing the preview
Content of the report preview window can be printed using two buttons. Left one (Print preview) opens print preview backstage view with possibility to modify printing parameters (those parameters are same as in Engineering Report). The right one (Print preview direct to printer) start printing with the last used setting.
Exporting preview
Content of the report preview window can be exported using the Export preview button. There are the same possibilities as in exporting of Engineering Report.
Zooming
It is possible to select one of major zoom modes (fit to window, page width, zoom 100%) by using thetoolbar buttons.
Graphical presentation of numerical values
Graphical presentation of numerical values can be switched ON/OFF using the toolbar button Draw graphs in tables.
Preview template
Content of the preview window consists of the selected table (see the chapter Opening the Preview) and preview template. Preview template can contain all entities which can be inserted into Engineering Report. The content of Preview template is placed before the selected table.
The typical content of the Preview template is definition of Page layout, Page format and Visual style.
Selection of Preview template
The current preview template can be selected in the Options dialogue:
Creating of new Preview template
Creating of a preview template is very easy:
- Define its content in the Engineering Report.
- Store it using the Save as preview template command.
Editing of Preview templates
For editing of existing Preview templates follow those steps:
- Insert content of existing Preview template in Engineering Report. Preview templates are listed in the list of new items
- Modify the content of the report
- Store it using the Save as preview template command
