#### Things to Know

- All standard PC-DMIS report templates and label templates are installed as "write protected”. If you plan to modify any of these templates, you must first change the property of the file by un-checking its "Read-only” property. This is important because if you use Windows Explorer to copy a write protected file, the new file will also be write protected.

- The "ReportData Object Overview” topic in the PCDBASIC documentation provides a description of methods for this object. This example uses several ReportData methods.

- To get Dtype information, right click on a dimension in the Edit Window. At the bottom of the displayed menu is the item "Change Pop-up Display”. Select that and then select "Data Type Information”. Now when you hover the cursor over an item in the Edit Window, a help tip displays Dtype information. For example, if you hover over a OUTTOL value, the tooltip description displays "Out tol (DIM_OUTTOL – 344), 0”. The Dtype is DIM_OUTTOL and the Dtype number is 344. This example uses the Dtype numbers. Future versions of PC-DMIS will also allow the use of the Dtype itself.

- The VBS Mini-Editor accepts the MsgBox statement. You may want to use this statement to help debug your script. Information that you display via the MsgBox statement will be displayed during report generation.

- The VBS Mini-Editor is a "mini" editor. If you are familiar with Visual Basic / Visual Studio this editor and the BASIC language used does not have all of the capabilities of the larger BASIC systems.