Report property sheet RTF Format tab

Chapter 7 Reports

Report property sheet RTF Format tab

PowerDesigner provides a set of predefined RTF presentation templates, style sheets, and header and footer files for generating RTF reports, which are located in the Resource Files\RTF Report Templates directory. You can use these files as a basis to create your own templates.

The report property sheet RTF Format tab allows you to specify an RTF presentation template for your report, and contains the following properties:

Property	Description
Template	Specifies the RTF presentation template to be used to style the report. Click the tools to the right of this field to edit the selected template (see RTF and HTML Report Presentation Templates) or browse to an alternate template directory.
Use sections header and footer	Specifies to use the header and footer defined in each report section instead of those defined in the RTF presentation template. If you want to preserve the header and footer of the title page and the one of the table of contents page, you should add a section break after the table of contents. This option is recommended when formatting a multi-model report, as otherwise all the pages of the report will have the same header and footer.

Property

Description

Template

Specifies the RTF presentation template to be used to style the report. Click the tools to the right of this field to edit the selected template (see RTF and HTML Report Presentation Templates) or browse to an alternate template directory.

Use sections header and footer

Specifies to use the header and footer defined in each report section instead of those defined in the RTF presentation template. If you want to preserve the header and footer of the title page and the one of the table of contents page, you should add a section break after the table of contents.

This option is recommended when formatting a multi-model report, as otherwise all the pages of the report will have the same header and footer.

Default buttons
Click the Set As Default button to specify your current settings as the default for RTF reports. To revert to the previously saved values, click the Default button.