Print Reports Project Defaults

The project defaults page for printing reports lets you set default options for printing reports. For example, if most of your reports are printed in landscape orientation, you can choose to print reports in landscape orientation by default instead of specifying the landscape option each time you print.

The Print Reports project defaults page is only available if PDF printing is disabled. To disable PDF printing, clear the Use PDF for printing reports check box on the General project defaults page. If PDF printing is enabled, the Print Reports (PDF) project defaults page is displayed instead.

Note: Some of the options below are only available if:

Dynamic HTML is enabled: These options are listed below as "DHTML enabled". For more information on enabling DHTML, see the General project defaults page.

Dynamic HTML printing is enabled: These options are listed below as "DHTML printing enabled". To enable DHTML printing, clear the Disable DHTML printing check box below.

Dynamic HTML is disabled: These options are listed below as "DHTML disabled". For more information on disabling DHTML, see the General project defaults page.

The following project defaults are available on the Print Reports page:

Orientation: Choose to print reports in either Portrait or Landscape mode.

Paper size: Determine the paper size on which to print a report.

Header and Footer: You can use headers and footers saved as part of the report settings or use a customized header and footer on all your reports. Select Edit Custom Settings to access the Header/Footer Editor. You can specify what text to print in the left, center, and right portions of the header and footer. You can simply type this text or insert fields specific to the report by choosing auto-text from the Insert Auto-text drop-down list at the top of the page.
For example, to add text such as "Page 1 of x" (where x is the total number of pages in the report) in the middle of the footer, click in the center text box in the Footer portion. Type the word "Page " then select Page Number from the Insert Auto-text drop-down list. Type " of " then click the Insert number of pages icon. The text appears as the following when you are finished: "Page &[Page] of &[NPages]" (without the quotation marks).

Scaling (DHTML enabled, DHTML printing enabled): Adjust the amount of the report's content (and thus, the size of the font) that prints on a page from the following scaling options:

Adjust font to __% of original size: Specify the font size of text displayed on a report as a percentage of its original size.

Fit to page: Specify whether the page is adjusted to fit All columns, All Rows, or both.

Margins (Inches) (DHTML enabled, DHTML printing enabled): Set the left, right, top, and bottom margins. For reports to print correctly, these margin settings and the margin settings in the browser's File > Page Setup option must match.

Maximum header size (Inches) (DHTML enabled, DHTML printing enabled): Set the size at which the report header can be overwritten. If the header is larger than its maximum size and the report must use the space to display its content, the header is cut off by the report content. If the report does not use the space, the entire header is displayed, regardless of size.

Maximum footer size (Inches) (DHTML enabled, DHTML printing enabled): Set the size at which the report footer can be overwritten. If the footer is larger than its maximum size and the report must use the space to display its content, the footer is cut off by the report content. If the report does not use the space, the entire footer is displayed, regardless of size.

Maximum number of rows per page (DHTML disabled): Determine the maximum number of report rows that can be displayed on a single printed page.

Default number of rows per page (DHTML disabled): Determine the default number of report rows that are displayed on a printed page.

Maximum number of columns per page (DHTML disabled): Determine the maximum number of objects, such as attributes and metrics, on the report columns that can be displayed on a single printed page.

Default number of columns per page (DHTML disabled): Determine the default number of objects on the report columns that are displayed on a printed page.

Maximum number of cells per block: Determine the maximum number of data cells that can be displayed in each grid.

Maximum number of graphs per block: Determine the maximum number of graphs that can be displayed in a single block of pages.

Header file: Specify the name of the file to use as the header. The default is _administrator_Header.htm.

Footer file: Specify the name of the file to use as the footer. The default is _administrator_Footer.htm.

Disable DHTML printing (DHTML enabled): Select the check box to turn off DHTML printing. Some options in the Print Reports preferences are only available if the Disable DHTML printing check box is cleared, as described above.

Show popup print dialog (DHTML enabled): Ensure that your browser's File > Print dialog box is automatically displayed when you show the printable version of a report.

Print cover page with filter details: Determine whether to print a cover page and the filter details of the report.

Print the grid and the graph on the same page: Determine if the grid and the graph are printed on the same page when printing a report displayed in Grid and Graph view. When enabled, this setting ensures that the graph you are currently viewing is placed on one page along with its corresponding grid. Additional sections of the report, if any, are displayed on subsequent pages, always with the graph and its corresponding grid rows on the same page. If you clear the check box, the grid and graph prints on separate pages.

Expand all page-by fields when printing: Determine whether or not to print all combinations of items in the Page-by axis when printing a report that has one or more items in the Page-by axis. To print only the items currently displayed in the page-by fields, clear this check box.

Show options when printing: Determine whether you are prompted to select print options every time you print.

Click Apply to apply the changes.

Note: Clicking Load Default Values will reset all options to their default settings.