General

Kalipso - Developing - Report - Properties - General

When this option is accessed, the window opens in the general tab.

Thus, it allows the following options:

Common

• Name - Name of the Report. This Name will be used to identify the Report throughout the Project. The name of the Report can only contain letters, digits or underscore (_).

• Description - Description of the Report. This Description is for your information only, Kalipso does nothing with it.

Layout

• Unit - You can choose the unit of measurement in millimeters or in characters. Depending on the choice, the following measurement options change. Starting to ask for the values in the chosen unit.

• Size - Paper size of the Report.

  • A4 - 210x297 mm

  • A5 - 148x210 mm

  • Letter - 216x279

  • Statement - 140x216

  • Custom - To define a custom size. You can create your own size in the following fields.

  • Continuous - Continuous - 50 (2''); Continuous - 72 (3''), Continuous - 100 (4´´).

Regarding the A4, A5, Letter and Statement size options the Report will be paged according to the specified dimensions.

Regarding the continuous size options the Report will use continuous paper.

• (mm) - Width of the Report Only editable if “Size” property is set to “Custom”.

• (mm) - Height of the Report Only editable if “Size” property is set to “Custom”.

Options

• Number of Pages – Number of pages to use in the report layout. This option is only available when the report is paged (A4, A5, Letter and Statement size options).

• Cutter offset - The distance from the point at which a blade cuts to the point with information or that the limit of the sheet / paper is defined. Only available when choosing the option "Unit" > "characters".

• Print Sequencially - This option is used to ignore the absolute height positions and print the controls in sequence considering only their relative positions. You cannot edit the paper size and this parameter at the same time.

Margins

• Top - Reserved blank space at the top of the page.

• Left - Reserved blank space at the left of the page.

• Right - Reserved blank space at the right of the page.

• Bottom - Reserved blank space at the bottom of the page.

With respect to these four margins, no Controls can be placed in those areas of the Report.

Miscellaneous

Masks

• Date - Date Format of the Report. You can select from the dropdown list or create your own.

• Time - Time Format of the Report. You can select from the dropdown list or create your own.

Separators

• Decimal - Decimal separator character for numeric values in the Report.

• Thousand - Thousand separator character for numeric values in the Report.

Other

• New line chars - Which are the char that the printer needs to make a new line. For example some printers require CR+LF others only require CR, etc. Introduce the ASCII character code.

• Number of prints - Number of prints for the report in question.

• Char Replace List - This parameter allows to create a list of characters to be replaced. When you click on this option a window appear:

In this table you can see the original character, the new one, as well as the original ASCII and the new one.

Style

Image

• Mode

  • Use as Template (full page)

  • Use as Template (printable area)

  • Print

• Image - Place where, by image type of file search, it appears the image that you want to add to the report.