To access the Custom Report Editor, select File | Reporting | New | Custom Report. To open an existing custom report for your current measurement routine, select File | Reporting | Edit | Custom Report.
You can access a slimmed down version of this editor from the Report window's Reporting toolbar. This lets you edit a report without leaving the usual PC-DMIS menu structure. You can do this through either of these options:
Click Custom Report selection
dialog (
) and then click Blank
Report and then Open.
Click Edit report (
).
PC-DMIS displays the Custom Report Editor with the Edit window placed into Summary mode next to it.
Custom Report Editor with the Summary mode to its left
This editor is similar to the Report Template Editor, Label Template Editor, and Form Editor. With the exception of some differences in its Object Bar, the user interface is essentially the same.
The custom report is the white and sizable area on top of the "CUSTOM" background. Note that when you use this editor, you do not create a template, but create the actual report that appears in the Report window. When you create a new custom report, this editor opens side by side with the Edit window set in Summary mode. This allows you to drag the desired objects from Summary mode onto your Custom Report. See "Creating Custom Reports".
With the Custom Report Editor, you cannot place the Report or Label template editors into run mode as you did with the HyperView editor. The Custom Report Editor only opens in edit mode and cannot be switched to run mode. Run mode functions only with the HyperView editor or the Form Editor.
The editor contains the following elements: