Creating Reports
Applicability: Cranium, Synapse (core versions 0315+)
Report documents are powerful tools for organizing
and distributing the various data, estimates, tables
and graphs displayed and generated by Cranium and
Synapse.
Example: Create a report document
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Select the New command from the File menu. The
application will activate the Create a New
Document dialog. Select the Report
Document document type and press the dialog's
OK button.
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The application will activate the File Dialog
prompting you for the filename of the
new document. Enter a name and press the dialog's
Save button. The application will create and open
the new report document.
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Enter values for the document's title, subtitle
and descriptions. See documentation on the
Document Titles Section and
Document Information Section for
details.
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Using the tabs at the top of the document, change to the
Reports Chapter by clicking the left mouse button on
the Reports tab. (See the
Navigation Overview documentation
for details on navigating chapters and pages.)
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Create a new report entity by pressing the "+" button
in the menubar or executing the "Add New Page" command found
on the Edit menu. A new, blank report page will be added
to the current document.
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Click the left mouse button on the Identifier Pane's
edit control. The application will activate the edit
dialog.
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Enter a name, e.g., "2-Butoxyethanol". Optionally
enter a reference and comment.
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Finally, press the dialog's Save button. The application
will save the new design's identifier into the
current document and display the new name you just
entered.
Example: Report 2-butoxyethanol's physical properties
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Open the MKS Core Knowledge Base document.
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Change to the Chemicals Chapter and navigate to 2-butoxyethanol.
(See the
Navigation Overview documentation
for details on navigating chapters and pages.)
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Select the Report Chemical Properties command from the
chapter's Commands menu.
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The application activates the Report Properties dialog. Select
the Report Document and the Report both created in the previous
example. Select the following properties to report and then
press the dialog's OK button.
| Identifier Section |
Critical Properties: Active |
| Synonyms |
Density, Liquid - f(T): Active |
| Constant Properties: Active |
Density, Liquid - f(T): Graph |
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The application reports each of the selected properties
in the selected report.
Example: Exporting reports
Reports can be exported into several other formats for
distribution or futher processing.
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Ensure that the Report we created in the first example
is the active entity.
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Select the Export Values command from the File menu.
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The application activates the Report Export dialog. Select
the HTML Format option from the Output File Format control.
Finally, press the Export button.
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The application activates the Export Report to an HTML
File dialog. Press the dialog's Browse button to select
the output file and select the "2-Butoxyethanol" report
from the Report to Export list. Finally, press the
dialog's Export button.
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The application converts the selected report into
HTML and writes the output into the selected file. If
the report contains images, separate files will be
created for each image and also written into the same
folder as the selected output file. Once the file
has been written, the application prompts for
viewing the file. The file generated by this example
can be viewed
here.
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