Changing Report Layouts

Changing Report Layouts

The FIMS graphical report viewer, which can be used to view many FIMS reports in a more printer-friendly format, also allows you to change the layout of the report on the page. You can save your report layout templates and apply them to other reports as well. 

Applying a Report Layout Template

Graphical viewer reports are those FIMS reports which you can “send to” the Graphical Viewer on the Sent To tab.

If the report can be viewed in the Graphical Viewer, a tab labeled Report Layout will appear in the FIMS Report Selections.

Existing report layout templates for this specific report are listed to the right. (You can select View All to have layouts for other reports included in the list.) Select a template in the list, return to the Sent To tab, and run the report in the Graphical Viewer to see the layout applied. 

Adding or Editing a Report Layout Template

To create a new template from scratch, click Add. If you want to modify a report layout template, go to the Report Layout tab, select it, and click Edit. In either case, the graphical report template utility opens.

NOTE: For help in using this utility, refer to the Help menu in the tool itself; the help file contains all the details on working with templates.

Some built-in templates cannot be edited. However, you can create a copy of any template by clicking Copy; then you can edit the copy without modifying the original template.

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