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Book Layout

The Book Layout view is for configuring the report book's cover design. A logo and cover image may be selected. You can also insert text for the back cover.
The cover image is positioned on the lower margin of the cover pages. The logo appears on every page at the upper right. The back cover text may additionally be displayed as a QR code.
All report books for a specific Customer will have the same layout.

Book Layout

Layout Settings

The cover image and logo are chosen from the Customer's Image Pool.

Choose Image

This button opens a window where an image from the image pool can be selected for use in the report book. Clicking OK confirms the selection, which is then shown in the preview area.

To ensure that images do not become pixelated if subsequently scaled in size, it is recommended that images are re-sized using an image editing program before they are uploaded to the Customer's image pool. For more details, please refer to the Notes on Formatting a Report Book Printout.

Remove Image

If you no longer want an image to be displayed, use this button to remove it from the Book Layout.

The Backcover Text is printed on the reverse of the cover design. It may additionally be displayed as a QR code.

Because there is a natural limit on the size of a QR code, only the initial 2947 characters of the back cover text field are encoded in the QR code.

Preview

The Preview shows how the cover page and back cover will look once your design is implemented.

Update Preview

Clicking on the Update Preview button brings up a preview on the right of your book layout design. You will need to refresh the preview manually to see any changes made.

Multitenancy

The Book Layout is created for the Customer currently selected.
Standard users can only see the book layout for the Customer they are associated with.

System users may freely select any Customer.
After selecting a Customer using the Customer Switch, work carried out by the System User is performed in the context of that Customer.
All report books for the selected Customer will have the same layout.

Caution: The System context does not support any book layout. If the System context [System] is selected under the Customer Switch, the following message will appear:

Access denied: no support for System context

Menu

The Book Layout contains the following menu items:

Refresh

This menu item is used to refresh the book layout.

Save

This menu item must be used to save a change to the book layout.

User
The following privilege allows users to open the Report Automation application: Report Automation Management Open. The option of configuring a book layout is only available to users who additionally hold the following privilege: Report Book Create / Edit.

Notes on Formatting a Report Book Printout

A report book is printed in DIN A4 format (210 mm wide and 297 mm high). The rendering resolution is 72 dpi.

The Logo measures 180 x 100 pixels (72 dpi). If images for the logo in the report book are used in a different format from the image pool in the Master Data application, they are scaled in size accordingly. The aspect ratio is retained nevertheless.
The logo is printed at the upper right of every page in the report book.

The Cover Image is 570 x 275 pixels (72 dpi) in size. If images for the cover image in the report book are used in a different format from the image pool in the Master Data application, they are scaled in size accordingly. The aspect ratio is retained nevertheless.
The cover image is positioned on the lower margin and printed on all cover pages (the cover page of the report book, the cover pages of all the reports it contains, and the back cover of the report book).

To ensure images do not become pixelated when scaled in size, it is recommended that images are re-sized using an image editing program before they are uploaded to the Customer's Image Pool.

More detailed information about the contents of a report book can be found here.

It is not possible to configure the formatting.

Structure of a Report Book

A report book consists of the following parts: