Supported Functionality

Some functionalities are not supported for the elements capture or for the report generation.

This page discusses:

See Also
Output Formats

Generation Functionality Availability

This section lists the available and applicable functions for the generation of reports depending on output formats. Depending on the functionality, some styles must be created in the output format document. A functionality with (*) can be captured only from rich text.

Functionality RTF HTML DOCX PDF XLSX CSV
Structure
- Sections
- Bulleted Lists
- Numbered lists
Page Formatting:
- Multicolumn Insertion
- Page Format Insertion
- Page Break Insertion
- Image Orientation and Page Size (until maximum size is A3) (until maximum size is A3)
Table Formatting:
- Table
- Table Column Width
- Border width (*)
- Border color (*)
- Background color (*)
Structure Formatting:
- Paragraph Styles
- Cell or paragraph alignment (center, justify, left, right) (*)
Text Formatting:
- Character Styles (bold, italic, underlined)
- Font color (*)
- Background color (*)
- Bold, italic (*)
- Underlined, strikethrough (*)
- Subscript, superscript (*)
Field Substitution:
- Field Substitution in Output Format
- Field Substitution in Texts
Generation Mode:
- Generate with Change Tracking
Miscellaneous:
- Hyperlink Insertion
- Anchor Insertion
- OLE Objects (*)
- File Attachments (**)
Image of format: .bmp, .emf, .gif, .jpg, .png, .svg, .wmf
- Image Insertion
Notes:
  • (*) In opposition to OLE support, the file attachment does not provide the ability to edit the content directly from the generated report.
  • (**) File attachment is the ability to attach an RCO (Rich Content Object) to a report.

Supported Rich Text Data

You can capture the following rich text elements depending on the sources. Some functionalities are only available through the rich text interpretation.

Functionality RTF HTML DOCX XLSX
Structure
- Section / Chapter
- Paragraph
- Bulleted lists
- Numbered lists
Table Formatting:
- Table
- Border width
- Border color
- Background color
Text Formatting:
- Font color
- Background color
- Bold, italic, underlined, strikethrough
- Subscript, superscript
Miscellaneous:
- Hyperlink
- Anchor
- OLE Objects
Image of format: .bmp, .emf, .gif, .jpg, .png, .svg, .wmf
- Image Only inline picture

Encoded Image

Images, contained in files, can directly be encoded in XML using Base64-encoded.

Example:

 <image>
<title>ABS sensor chain</title>
 <link>http://www.your.domain</link>
 <url>data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADIA...</url>
 </image>