Assigning Styles

To define the look of structure elements or texts in a generated report file, you can apply character and paragraph styles to these elements in the associated template.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
About Structure Elements
Inserting Terminal Data and Loops
Supported Functionality
Data, Structure Elements, and Instructions

Assign Styles to Structure Elements

You can apply styles to structure elements. The following scenario describes how to assign a style to a paragraph.

The scenario is identical if you assign styles to other structure elements.

Before you begin: Insert a paragraph in the Graphical area.
  1. From the Templates page, select a paragraph in the Graphical area.
  2. In the Style box of the Properties tab, enter a paragraph style to be used for the generation of the paragraph.
    Examples:
    • For a Microsoft Word document, you can enter Plain Text to display the paragraph in this style. For more information, see DOCX Output Format.
    • For an RTF document, you can enter Plain Text to display the paragraph in this style. For more information, see RTF Output Format.
    • For a Microsoft Excel document, you can enter entryStandard to display the paragraph in this style. For more information, see XLSX Output Format.

If you have the Report Producer role, you can generate a report file where the corresponding paragraph will be generated with the entered style. For more information, see Report Generation: Managing and Generating Reports: Generating Report Files.

Assign Table Styles

You can apply a table style to a table.

Important: The use of table styles is only available for the DOCX and XLSX output formats.

Before you begin: Insert a table in the Graphical area.
  1. From the Templates page, select the table in the Graphical area.
  2. In the Style box of the Properties tab, enter a table style to be used for the generation of the table.

    Notes:
    • For table style, you have to define your own style and not reuse a predefined style.
    • You can define your own style in a .docx output format, otherwise the Table Normal style is applied. For more information, see DOCX Output Format.
    • You can define your own style in an .xlsx output format, otherwise no special style is applied. For more information, see XLSX Output Format.

If you have the Report Producer role, you can generate a report file where the corresponding table will be generated with the entered style. For more information, see Report Generation: Managing and Generating Reports: Generating Report Files.

Display Tables as Chart

You can display a table as a chart.

Before you begin: Insert a table in the Graphical area.
  1. From the Templates page, select the table in the Graphical area.
  2. In the Style box of the Properties tab, enter a chart display name to be used for the generation of the table. For more information, see Chart Styles for Tables.

If you have the Report Producer role, you can generate a report file where the corresponding table will be generated as a chart. For more information, see Report Generation: Managing and Generating Reports: Generating Report Files.

Apply Text Formatting

You can apply basic character styles such as bold, italic, or underline to template texts, texts from data, and OTScript codes. The following scenario describes how to define the appearance of a template text. The scenario is identical if you define the appearance of data texts or OTScript codes.

  1. From the Templates page, select a template text in the Graphical area.
  2. To modify the appearance of the text in the generated report file, select one or more options between Bold, Italic, and Underlined in the Properties tab.

If you have the Report Producer role, you can generate a report file where the corresponding text will be generated with the selected appearance. For more information, see Report Generation: Managing and Generating Reports: Generating Report Files.