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Report Designer Manual

 

With the left symbol bar 14 symbol you create a picture element. Pull up the picture in the display window:

 

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Then go on the highlighted arrow. The following dialog will open:

 

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In order to insert a picture from a file click on the three dots ... behind picture. The following window will open:

 

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Choose the desired picture and click on Open.

Alternatively you can also insert a picture via an Image URL (meaning a link to an FTP server that contains your picture).

 

iinfoNow the standard is that you insert pictures via such a picture URL. This decreases the size of the e-mail and makes it possible for the recipient of the e-mail to decide himself which pictures he wants to download at what time.

 

In order to adjust the sizing of the picture choose one of the options from the list.

Furthermore, you have the possibility to create formatting rules. For that, go on the three dots behind formatting rules. The following window opens:

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Click on the Edit rule sheet button. You will get to the following dialog:

 

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Next, go on the green +: ​

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Now, you click on the arrow in front of formatting. A list appears with the configuration options for the formatting:

 

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Here you can set the background color, the border color, the border dash style, the border width, the font, the foreground color and the text alignment.

 

If you want to delete your formatting rule again click on the red x next to the green +. With the left symbol bar 16 symbol you delete all of the existing formatting rules, with the left symbol bar 17 symbol all of the unused formatting rules.

 

After clicking on the x in the upper right corner to close the window you will get back to the following dialog:

 

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Now your formatting rule appears in the list on the left. To move it over to the list of the formatting rules that should be applied click on the left symbol bar 18 symbol. Then go on OK. Your formatting will be applied.

 

These were some of the picture settings. You can read about further settings in the chapter Property Grid.