## Reporting Changes

The major reporting changes in PC-DMIS 4.x and higher include the addition of a powerful template system. The following items detail the major changes to PC-DMIS reporting since version 3.7:

- Reporting is no longer a part of the Edit window. A new Reporting window with its own toolbar displays measurement results. See "About the Report Window".

- Reports now use templates. This means you can plug the same data into different templates thereby generating different reports from the same data, or you can standardize your reports and create a single report template, maintaining the same look and feel across all your reports even though the data comes from several different part programs. See "About Reports and Report Templates".

- Report templates also utilize Labels to report specific dimension or feature information. You can create your own customized label templates. See "About Labels and Label Templates".

- HyperView-like reporting editors exist as separate editing environments for different aspects of the new reporting approach:

- 1. Report Template Editor

  2. Label Template Editor

  3. Custom Report Editor

  4. Forms Editor

- An Object Bar exists for each of the new reporting environments:

- 1. Report Template Editor Object Bar

  2. Label Template Editor Object Bar

  3. Form Editor Object Bar

  4. Custom Report Editor Object Bar

- Any object's property can be made "user definable" so that when the report is executed or a template is chosen, the user is queried to insert a value for that property. See "Working with User Assigned Properties".

- Similar to the old HyperView reporting is the ability to create a report that does not use a report template but is instead specific to a part program. See "Creating Custom Reports".

- Beginning with version 4.3 MR1, PC-DMIS now supports again the editing and creation of legacy (HyperView) reports. See "Working with Legacy (HyperView) Reports".

- The old Feature Text object is no longer used except in HyperView reporting. PC-DMIS now uses label templates to perform this and other tasks.

- Beginning with PC-DMIS 2009, the software now includes the Point Info See "PointInfo Object"., and Dimension Info See "DimensionInfo Object". objects inside the Label Template editor and the Custom Report editor.

- Beginning with PC-DMIS 2012 MR1, the Reporting directory has changed locations. See "Modifying Standard Templates".