PC-DMIS Reporting Tutorials

Welcome to the PC-DMIS Reporting Tutorials web page. The tutorials here are mainly screen-demo walkthroughs that show specific tasks or concepts of PC-DMIS's newer template-based reporting functionality (version 4.x and higher). Since this functionality is multi-faceted with a sometimes rather steep learning curve, these tutorials are not intended to substitute actual training with a live instructor.

Requirements: To view these tutorials you must have:

An Internet capable browser with the ability to play Flash videos (.swf files).

A computer with a sound card and speakers to hear voice narration.

 

Date Added

Stream Tutorial
 

Description

Approximate Time

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1 July 2008

Viewing Reporting-Related User Interface Changes

This screen demo shows the Reporting user interface elements that exist in PC-DMIS version 4.3 as compared with version 3.7.

8 minutes

6.8 mb

1 July 2008

Exploring the Reporting Toolbar

This screen demo shows the Reporting window in more detail, specifically detailing the Reporting toolbar and what each icon does.

13 minutes

18.2 mb

1 July 2008

An Overview of PC-DMIS Template Reporting

This tutorial gives an overview of the template-based reporting functionality new in PC-DMIS since version 4.0. It gives an overview of Templates in general and then shows how Report Templates, Label Templates, report objects, and rules all work together inside a Report template to produce a report in the Report window.

12 minutes

12.1 mb

1 July 2008

Customizing the Report's Header

This tutorial shows how to modify a template header to contain a custom logo and other custom information. It will modify the underlying GridControlObject located on the File_Header.lbl label template to include the new info.

13 minutes

16.5 mb

1 July 2008

Exploring the Standard Report Templates

This tutorial contains six parts, each part taking you through each of the six standard report templates that ship with PC-DMIS, showing each report in the Report window and then discussing each report's underlying report template and reporting objects used on that template.

19 minutes

30.8 mb

1 July 2008

Displaying a Legacy Text Only Report

This tutorial shows how to display a legacy-type text-only report by turning on text-mode reporting for the TextOnly.rtp standard report template. It then shows how to use the Default.rtp report template to get a true text-only legacy report.

3 minutes

4.2 mb

1 July 2008

Making Modifications

This tutorial shows the difference between making temporary Report window "modifications" and making permanent report template changes. It uses the CADOnly report and shows examples of how to make temporary modifications, how to remove those modifications, and how to make permanent template changes.

12 minutes

16.6 mb

1 July 2008

Using Rules and Report Expressions

This tutorial explains what rules are and how they control what label templates are used and when. It also explains what report expressions are and how to use a command's data type as an expression within a GridControlObject of a custom label template. As the tutorial progresses it provides you with a practical example of how to modify the display of comments inside your final report.

18 minutes

17.9 mb

11 October 2008

Displaying Header Data on All Pages

This tutorial describes how to display header (or other) information on each page of a multi-page report by clearing the rule that calls the default header and instead inserting a label object directly into a report template, and then modifying the rules of the label object to pull in the header label template instead.

9 minutes

12.9 mb