The Report Pages Section provides you with capabilities to view and edit the pages of the reports you generate from within Cranium and Synapse. The secton contains a single field which contains a large edit control.
Typically, you use the reporting commands found on menus and dialogs throughout Cranium and Synapse. For example, most chapters have a command, found on the Chapter's Commands menu, that enables you to add values from the chapter's sections to a current report.
Some dialogs include buttons that will output their contents to a current report. Often these dialogs format their output into a complete report.
Once values and graphs have been added to a report, you can view the report, edit the report, or export the report into different formats for further processing.
Clicking the left mouse button on the field's large edit control activates the Report Pages Edit dialog.
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Report Display Control: the dialog's main edit control displays the each of the items that makes up a report. Example items are text, lines, rows, cells, spaces, and graphs. |
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Report Section: within the edit dialog, reports are divded into sections. A report section is typically surrounded by a light gray border. Clicking the left mouse button on a section will select that section. (Holding the keyboard's ctrl button down and clicking the left mouse button on a section enables you to select more than one section.) If a section is selected, its border becomes thicker and blue. Most of the dialog's commands apply only to selected sections. |
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Edit Button: selecting a section and pressing the dialog's Edit button activates the Report Section Edit dialog. This dialog enables you change the appearance and contents of a report section. Documentation is provided below. |
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Undo Button: pressing the Undo button will reverse the effect of the last command. |
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Delete Button: pressing the Delete button will remove the selected sections from the current report. |
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Insert Button: pressing the Insert button will add a 'default text section' to the report. The report will be inserted immediately after the currently selected section. The default text section, is a report section that contains a heading, line separators, a text item, and a trailing space. |
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Move Down Button: pressing the Move Down button will move the selected section below the next section in the current report. |
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Move Up Button: pressing the Move Up button will move the selected section above the next section in the current report. |
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Layout Button: pressing the Layout button activates the Page Setup dialog which enables you to change margins, orientation, and paper size. See beow for documentation. |
Clicking the left mouse button with the Report Pages section activates the Report Pages Edit dialog. Select a report section and pressing the dialog's Edit button activates the Report Section Edit dialog.
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Report Items Control: the dialog's edit control displays the selected section's report item. A report item is the basic piece that makes up a report, e.g., a text item, a line item, a row item, a space item. |
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Report Items: a report item is typically displayed surrounded by a light gray border. Clicking the left mouse button on a report item will select that item. (Holding the keyboard's ctrl button down and clicking the left mouse button on an item enables you to select more than one item.) When a report item is selected, its border becomes thicker and blue. Most of the dialog's commands apply only to selected items. |
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Edit Button: pressing the dialog's Edit button activates a Report Item Edit dialog. Each report item has its own Edit dialog. See below for documentation. |
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Next Item Button: pressing the Next Item button will deselect the currently selected item and select the next item in the section. This command is very useful for selecting small items, such as line items, or contained items, such as row cells. |
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Prev Item Button: pressing the Prev Item button will deselect the currently selected item and select the previous item in the section. This command is very useful for selecting small items, such as line items, or contained items, such as row cells. |
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Insert Text Button: creates a report text item and inserts it into the report section after the currently selected item. |
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Delete Item Button: removes the currently selected report item from the current report section. |
Pressing the Report Section Edit dialog's Edit button activates a Report Item Edit dialog. Each report item has its own Edit dialog. These are documented in the following sections.
Report text items may contain any text from a single word to a long paragraph. Report text items are typically used as headings. Their contents, font, background color, and alignment are some of their attributes that can be edited.
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Item Text Display Control: displays the report item currently being edited. As you change the item's attributes, its display will be updated. |
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Bkgrnd Color Control: clicking on the color display activates the color selection dialog. The item's background will be displayed in the selected color. |
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Wrap Text Control: this attribute controls if the item's contents are wrapped onto a new line if their length exceed the item's width. |
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Horz Align Control: this attribute controls the horizontal alignment of the item's text. |
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Vert Align Control: this attribute controls the vertical alignment of the item's text. |
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Set Text Button: pressing this button activates the Text Edit dialog which enables you to edit the item's text. |
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Set Font Button: pressing this button activates the Font Selection dialog which enables you to edit the item's font. |
Horizontal Rule items are lines typically used to designate conceptual separations in tables or sections. For example, a horizontal rule is typically inserted between a table's headings and its contents.
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Item Text Display Control: displays the report item currently being edited. As you change the item's attributes, its display will be updated. |
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Thickness Control: enables you to select the thickness of the horizontal rule. The thickness is in units of millimeters. |
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Color Control: clicking on the color display activates the color selection dialog. The rule will be displayed in the selected color. |
Report space items are used to separate other report items. Report space items are typically added to end of report sections.
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Item Text Display Control: displays the report item currently being edited. As you change the item's attributes, its display will be updated. |
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Height Control: enables you to select the height of the space item. The height is in units of millimeters. |
Report row items are used extensively to report physical property values. The typically are used to create a table showing state variables, property values, and units. Each report row contains one or more report cells.
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Item Text Display Control: displays the report item currently being edited. As you change the item's attributes, its display will be updated. |
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Cell Percentages Controls: enables you to specify the width, as a percentage, of each of the row's cells. Each cell's percentage must be greater than 0 and less than or equal to 100. |
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Percentage Total Control: displays the total of the cell percentages. This total must equal 100. |
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Keep With Next Option Control: this option ensures that this row and the next item in the report are kept on the same page. |
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Normalize Button: pressing this button recalculates the percentages of all cells to ensure they total 100. |
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Equalize Button: pressing this button assigns and equal value to the percentages of all cells. The percentage of the last cell may be modified to ensure the percentages total to 100. |
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Previous Button: pressing this button assigns the cell percentages to the previous values assigned using this dialog. |
Report row items contain one or more report row cells. These cells can contain different values, e.g., text values, molecular structures, graphs, real numbers, and integers. The attributes of some of these cell types can be edited.
Report text cells are commonly used for table headings and property values. The have several attributes that can be edited.
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Item Text Display Control: displays the report item currently being edited. As you change the item's attributes, its display will be updated. |
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Bkgrnd Color Control: clicking on the color display activates the color selection dialog. The item's background will be displayed in the selected color. |
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Wrap Text Control: this attribute controls if the item's contents are wrapped onto a new line if their length exceed the item's width. |
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Horz Align Control: this attribute controls the horizontal alignment of the item's text. |
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Vert Align Control: this attribute controls the vertical alignment of the item's text. |
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Height Control: enables you to select the height of the space item. The height is in units of millimeters. |
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Set Text Button: pressing this button activates the Text Edit dialog which enables you to edit the item's text. |
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Set Font Button: pressing this button activates the Font Selection dialog which enables you to edit the item's font. |
In addition to the report sections generated by the application, you can add a simple, default text section using the Report Pages Edit dialog. The dialog's Insert button adds the section before the currently selected section.
The inserted default text section contains a section heading (a report text item), a top horizontal rule, body text (a report text item), a bottom horizontal rule, a final report space item. Once the default text section is inserted, all of these report items can be edited as described previously.
The Report Pages Edit dialog enables you to easily rearrange report sections. Selecting a single report section enables the dialog's Move Down and Move Up buttons. Pressing either of these buttons moves the selected section after the next section (Move Down Button) or before the previous section (Move Up Button).
Pressing Report Pages Edit dialog's Layout button activates the Page Setup Dialog. This dialog enables you to change the report's margins, orientation, and paper size. Note that margins and paper size are specified in units of millimeters.
| Topic | Description |
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| Getting Started using Synapse | provides a quick tour of Synapse's capabilities including examples of chemical product design. |
| Getting Started using Cranium | provides a quick tour of Cranium's capabilities including a discussion of structure editing. |
| Estimating Chemical Properties | a short video demonstrating how to estimate the physical properties of chemicals using either Synapse or Cranium. |
| Estimating Mixture Properties | a short video demonstrating how to estimate the physical properties of mixtures using either Synapse or Cranium. |