### Creating and Saving a Custom Report

To create a custom report where you lay out objects where you want them, do the following:

1. Access the Custom Report tab and then apply the part data to the tab.

2. By default, a blank report exists when you first access this tab. But if you need to create a new report, click the Create Custom Report icon from the toolbar and choose New.

Important: Only one custom report can exist on the Custom Report tab at a time. Any existing custom reports visible here will be overwritten if you select New.

3. A new blank report will appear:

4. If you want more than one page, click Create Custom Report icon . Then click Append for each additional page you want added. This adds new blank pages to the end of the report. Use the mouse wheel to scroll through the multiple pages.

5. Add the desired objects onto the custom report.

- Click the Custom Object icon.

- From the list of available objects, select the object you want to add.

- Click and drag the mouse to create the object at the desired location on the report.

- Modify the object by right-clicking on it and choosing the desired options from the resulting menu.

- Continue adding objects as needed.

- Drag and drop marked items from the side bar onto existing objects to get them to display real data.

Note: The reporting objects will not contain real data. These are dummy objects that only become populated when viewed within the Report tab or when a ReportViewer report is created.

5. Size and position the objects as desired.

6. Click the Save Report icon. The Save Report dialog box appears. Choose the desired report format and other options and click OK.

See the "Save Report" topic for information on these report formats.

To view the saved report, if you saved it as a WebReporter report, you will need to load it inside of the Report tab. If you saved it as a ReportViewer report, load it into the ReporViewer application.

Showing Data from Multiple Reports in a Single CAD Control

You can show data from more than one part in a single CAD container by doing the following:

1. From the main parts view, select the parts you want to report on.

2. Right-click and choose Apply. Both parts appear in the drop down list at the top of the side bar.

3. Create an empty custom report.

4. Add a CAD control onto the report. Size and position it as needed.

5. From the drop-down list in the side bar, select the first part.

6. From the side bar list of feature variables, highlight the ones you want to show in the CAD control.

7. Drag and drop the highlighted feature variables from the side bar into the CAD control.

8. The dropped items are displayed as labels surrounding the CAD image.

9. From the side bar's drop down list, select a different part.

10. Highlight the feature variables from that part.

11. Hold down CTRL on the keyboard, and then drag and drop as before.

12. This time, the dropped items appear as new labels inside the CAD control. Note that If you don't hold down CTRL, the CAD control only shows what is dropped; it won't retain the previous labels.

13. Continue using CTRL and dragging and dropping from other parts as needed.

14. Position the labels.