Report Sections
Report Sections
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There are five basic parts to a report, although not all reports include all five sections.
Title
The title appears as one line at the top of the first page of the report. By default, the title indicates the type of report. However, a custom title can be specified from Options | Report Options and select the Titles/Facility tab. From Options | Report Fonts, you can specify the font for the titles.
Subtitles
The subtitle appears under the title on the first page and includes information about the facility. From Options | Report Options and the Titles/Facility tab, you can specify which facility data fields are included in the subtitle section. From Options | Report Fonts, you can specify the font for the subtitles.
Section Header
Some reports contain a section header. This displays information about the table following the header. The header columns can be resized independently of the data columns. Also, from Options | Report Fonts, you can specify the font for section headers.
Column Headers
Columns headers indicate the data field for each column. From Options | Report Options, you can choose to display all column headers in upper case. From Options | Report Fonts, you can specify the font for columns headers.
The Data Section
The data section constitutes the body of the report table. You can resize the data columns and corresponding column header by drag-and-drop. You can specify the alignment of the data column and corresponding column header from Options | Report Options. From Options | Report Fonts, you can specify the font for the data section.
Note:
In general, any report template can be used for multiple facilities. However, each report template may have information specific to a single facility, such as restricting the report to a specific sample location. If such a template is used to create a report from a facility that does not have that location, no data will appear in the report. For this reason, you may choose to save some report templates in specific facility directories.