## Viewing a Legacy Text Only Report

Report Window Showing a Legacy Report

This topic discusses how you can get a legacy (old style) text only report to show up in your Report window in version 4.x and above. This report type was used in versions 3.7 and earlier. Note that you should only use legacy dimensions in your part program if you go this route.

1. Select View | Report Window to access the Report window.

2. Select the Template Selection dialog icon from the Reporting toolbar. The Report Templates dialog box appears.

3. Click Add and select default.rtp. This is a catch-all, truly text-only, default report template which PC-DMIS falls back on and uses if a part program tries to load a template that isn't on the computer system.

4. Click Open to add the template into the Report Templates dialog box. Select the template inside the Template Selection dialog box and click Open. PC-DMIS loads the default.rtp template into the Report window.

5. Click the Add Template To Toolbar icon from the Reporting toolbar. The saved template now appears on the toolbar. So if you only want to load the legacy report only sometimes, you can simply click on the appropriate stored report template icon to load it. If you want it to load this template every time you open up the current part program, you can click the Set this report as the default report icon.

6. This step is optional. If you will be modifying the finished report inside an RTF editor, you may want to change how RTF files are converted. In the PC-DMIS Settings Editor, expand the Printing section and set DoNotUseAmyUniRTF to 2. Click Save Setting and then click OK. This will make the text for the report print out to RTF files like they used to in 3.7 and before. If this is set to 0 (the default) characters show up inside of text boxes.