Print dialog

The dialog appears after you click the Options button on the side bar and select Print from the option list. It helps you to print one or more library components in a dashboard using the same format. See the dialog.

Resources

• For System Layout
  Specifies which library components you are going to print and their printing order.

  By default all printable library components are listed and selected. To print some of them, unselect the others.

  The order of the listed library components determines the order in which they will be printed. Click the buttons and to adjust the printing order if necessary.

• For Customize Layout
  Displays all the printable library components in the dashboard. When customizing the layout for printing, you can drag the components from here to the Design tab.

Show Component Title

Specifies whether to show the library component titles in the print result.

Layout

• System Layout
  Uses a layout calculated by JReport based on the position of the printable library components in the current dashboard. The preview result of the system layout is displayed on the right.
• Customize Layout
  Allows rearranging the layout of the components you would like to print using a tabular object. You can customize the layout in the Design tab and preview it in the Preview tab.
• Other customized layouts saved
  Your saved layouts are also listed for choosing. You can do further modifications based on them. For each of the customized layouts, you can edit its name or delete it using the two buttons - Rename and Delete - appearing on the right when the mouse hovers over the layout item on the drop-down list.

  

Select Format

Specifies the format in which the library component result will be printed.

• PDF
  Specifies to print the result to a PDF file.
• HTML
  Specifies to print the result to a HTML file.

Page Setup

Opens the Page Setup dialog for specifying the page properties of the printed file. Enabled for non-system layouts.

Print

Starts printing.

Save

Saves changes to an existing layout or opens the Save As dialog for saving a newly created layout. The saved layouts are available in the Layout drop-down list for applying. The layouts that you save will be available to all users using the same dashboard.

Save As

Opens the Save As dialog for saving a new layout with a name or saving an existing layout with another name.

Options for managing tabular cell

Available to non-system layouts. They are used for customizing the layout in the Design tab.

• Horizontal Split
  Splits a cell into two horizontal cells. When there is a library component in the cell, it will be placed in the left cell after the splitting.
• Merge
  Merges adjacent cells forming a rectangle into one cell. When there are more than one library component in the cells, the cells cannot be merged.
• Vertical Split
  Splits a cell into two vertical cells. When there is a library component in the cell, it will be placed in the top cell after the splitting.

Options for navigating pages

• First
  Goes to the start page.
• Previous
  Goes to the previous page.
• Turn to Page
  Input a number in the text box and then press the Enter button on the keyboard to go to that page directly. If the input number is larger than the total page number, it goes to the last page, and if the number smaller than 1, it goes to the first page.
• Next
  Goes to the next page.
• Last
  Goes to the end page.

Options for zooming in/out the pages

The usage of the tool:

• Click - to zoom out.
• Click + to zoom in.
• Select a percentage from the drop-down list.
• Input a percentage in the text box. The zoom range is from 30% to 400%. If you input a value out of the range, the ratio will be restored to the previously applied percentage.

Design tab

Available to non-system layouts. It is where you customize the component layout. The page size is determined by the page setup properties and the ratio setting. A tabular fulfills the page printable area for holding a library component in each cell. Split or merge the cells and then drag library components from the Resources box into the cells to customize the layout.

When printing, for tables and crosstabs, only their current view of data as displayed in the dashboard will be printed by default. For example, if a table contains 10 pages of data and you browse to page 3 when you open the Print dialog, then in the printed result, the table will only contain data of page 3. If you want their full data to be printed, you need to use the Filter option on the context menu to switch from Current View to All.

There are these options on the context menu after right-clicking in a tabular cell:

• Filter
  Opens the Filter dialog to choose the data scope of the table or crosstab in the tabular cell.
• Remove
  Removes the library component from the tabular cell.

View tab

Available to non-system layouts. It provides a preview of the customized layout. You can click the page navigation and zooming buttons to preview the result.

Related topics:

• Printing library components