The Automatic Report Generation and On Demand Reporting reporting methods provide the following formats:

Display - With this option an image of a display is exported.

Report - With this option a image of a display is exported onto the first page followed by at least one page for each table or object grid in the display. As many pages as are necessary to show all the data in each table or object grid are included in the report. This enables you to view all data in a table or object grid that you otherwise must use a scrollbar to see. If there are no tables or object grids in your display, you will only get a image of the display.

Automatic Report Generation - Use this to create reports for multiple displays from the command line using a report configuration file.

On Demand Reporting - Use this to export reports a single display from within an RTView application.

On Demand Reporting
Use On Demand Reporting to export reports a single display from within an RTView application.

Generating Reports with the Display Builder
When generating a report in the Display Builder, the Page Setup dialog opens, then RTView creates a printable PDF file to save to disk.

Display - Right-click on the display to export and select Export>Display.

Report - Right-click on the display to export and select Export>Report.

NOTE: Export>Report / Display from the file menu will export the display in the main window of the Display Builder.

Generating Reports with the Display Viewer
When generating a report in the Display Viewer, the Page Setup dialog opens, then RTView creates a printable PDF file to save to disk.

Display - Right-click on the display to export and select Export>Display.

Report - Right-click on the display to export and select Export>Report.

NOTE: Export>Report / Display from the file menu will export the display in the main window of the Display Viewer. If you are using multiple display panels, the display that will be exported depends on the layout:

Border Panel - Display in center panel is exported
Tabbed Panel - Display in selected tab is exported
Grid Panel - Display in first panel in grid is exported
Card Panel - Display in visible panel is exported
Navigation Tree - Display in center panel is exported

Generating Reports with the Rich Client Browser
When generating a report in the Rich Client Browser, the Page Setup dialog opens, then the PDF file opens in a new browser window.

Display - Right-click on the display to export and select Export>Display.

Report - Right-click on the display to export and select Export>Report.

NOTE: In order to generate reports from the Rich Client Browser, you must setup the rtvreport servlet.

Generating Reports with the Thin Client Browser
When generating a report in the Thin Client Browser, the Page Setup dialog opens, then the PDF file opens in a new browser window.

Display - Right-click on the display to export, select Export PDF and choose Display in the Page Setup dialog.

Report - Right-click on the display to export, select Export PDF and choose Report in the Page Setup dialog.  

Localizing Reports
You can localize the headers and footers of exported reports for the Display Builder, Display Viewer and the Thin Client.

To localize the headers and footers of your exported reports:  
1. Navigate to the custom\rtvreport directory.

2. Copy the rtvreport.properties file into the directory where you start the RTView application. Typically, this is where the display (.rtv) files used by your application reside.

3. Open the rtvreport.properties file you just copied in a text editor and edit the following properties as needed :

        #pdf.header.left=
        #pdf.header.center=
        #pdf.header.right=

        pdf.footer.left=
        pdf.footer.center=
        pdf.footer.right=

The following example rtvreport.properties file contains the default values and initial values. Where:

• Date / Time formats are delimited by |||.
• Date Time formats use standard Java SimpleDateFormat patterns, as defined here: http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html
• Page numbers are defined as:

            ### = current page number
            @@@ = total number of pages

Example:

NOTE: To use a single rtvreport.properties file for multiple applications in different directories, use the RTV_USERPATH environment variable to define a classpath that includes a reference to where the rtvreport.properties file resides, as the rtvreport.properties file is a properties file that is read from the classpath at runtime.

NOTE: The rtvreport.properties file is treated as a resource bundle, and thus follows the java convention for localizing resource bundles (rtvreport is followed by an underscore and a two-letter language code (ISO 639-2 code) that specifies the language that the resource bundle deals with. ) For example, for Spanish and French you create rtvreport_es.properties and rtvreport_fr.properties, respectively.