Printing
1General
1.1Selections
1.2Modifying the layout
1.2.1Printer settings
1.3Name or description of the price lists on reports
1.4Manage print headers
1.5Layout of the column headers
1.6Layout of general data on printing
1.7Quantity of decimal numbers and sorting
1.8Separate thousands
1.9Exponential notation
1.10Return to the selection window
1.11Save layout printpreviews per user
1.12Report profiles
1.13Possibility to choose a printer for every report
2Important reports
2.1Formulae
2.1.1Print detail formula
2.1.2Report formula + label
2.1.3Report overview formulae
2.1.4Recent formulae
2.1.5Report overview formulae in columns
2.1.6Control list
2.1.7History, overview
2.1.8Detail history formulae
2.1.9History detail formula + label
3Available prints specifications
3.1Detail specification
3.2Detail nutrient in session
3.3History specificaties
3.3.1Overview
1General
This chapter deals with the way in which a report can be made, especially the design of the layout, print profiles and the printer configuration. After all, this procedure is identical for all the reports. In a following chapter the different, available reports are discussed in more detail, more specifically which data can be printed.
1.1Selections
In function of the type of report, a first screen allows to select the data that have to be printed. In the example below (overview formula, see 2.5) one can select the systems, the specifications and two alternative pricelists.
1.2Modifying the layout
The screen of the modification of the layout shows:
-an option that allows entering a specific edition and to indicate if one wants to print a comment
-an option with the printer settings
-an option for the file creation (see chapter 3)
-different options concerning the report data
1.2.1Printer settings
If “Default printer” is checked, the default printer (selected by Windows) will always be selected. If you want to choose another printer, click the button to select the desired printer.
Attention: if you do not check “Default printer”, this printer will be used by all the users who use this profile, which can cause problems if they do not have access to the printer. Here you have to choose between a Portrait or Landscape print (even if you have indicated that you want to use the default printer):
Since the overview that you get before printing you can copy and paste the image in a Word document, in a mail, etc.
1.3Name or description of the price lists on reports
Menu: Tools Options category ‘Price lists’ (PL)
At the options a new category has been added, ‘Price lists’. Here one can indicate if the price list descriptions should be used on the reports instead of the price list names:
This option is especially interesting if Libra Go (optimisation for the external service) has been installed as well, because there the description is more commonly worked with than the name.
1.4Manage print headers
Menu: Print manage print headers
One can now set different headers for oneself and subsequently indicate for every report which header one wants to use.
Description of the most important columns
Code: Code that selects the header. This code is shown in the choice lists of the headers.
Title: this text is shown in a large font in the header. Enter a space if you do not want a title.
Large title: if you check this, you get a slightly larger title.
Font: Choose here the font you want to use for the header.
Number of columns in header: indicates in how many columns the date from the header will be printed. If nothing is filled in, the default is 3.
Separation line: if checked, a full line is printed beneath the header
Layout: click here to select the data that you want to see in the header:
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Use system data: if checked, the data (address, zip code …) of the system are used. In case of the report detail formula, this is the system of the formula in question. In case of the other reports the first visible system is used. LibraQC uses the date of the customer.
Address, zip code… if you do not use the data of the system, you can fill in these data here.
For logos you have to enter the complete path name of the file. Ensure yourself that the screen is rectangle. Possibly add blank space to the bitmap. The file format always has to be bitmap (bmp).
You can also enter a separate logo per system (Data Systems Modify):
One can set 2 logos as desired on the print headers:
Left logo:
- If the box “Use system data” is checked for the header in question, then the logo of the system is used here.
- If no logo has been set on the system, the left logo is used that was specified for this header.
- The system, of which the logo is used, is the system of the printed specification for the reports “Detail formula” and “Specification”. For the other reports the logo of the first system in session or that of the first visible system is used.
Right logo:
- On the report “Detail formula”, the logo of the species is printed on the right if this was checked in the configuration of the print profile and if a logo has been set for that species.
- In the other cases the right logo that has been specified in the print header comes here.
- If this was not filled in, the logo of Radar Automation comes here.
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Printer settings
When modifying the layout of a report, at the bar “Printer setings”, one can set which header one wants to use.
Default header:
In the menu Tools Options, in the category PR (Printer settings), there are two new options in relation to printer headers. Under “default print header”, you can enter the code of the header that should be used on the prints where a header has not explicitly been selected. If neither on the report, nor in this option something has been filled in, the old header is used, as in release 10 and previous. With the option “Always print date and time at the top?” you make sure that date and time are always printed in the header. If not they will be placed at the bottom if page numbers are printed, and at the top in other cases.
1.5Layout of the column headers
For every part of the report one can indicate how the column header should be shown: withor without border lines, with or without gray background, the number of lines of which the header should consist.
Example for the report “Raw materials Consumption and prices” (“modify layout” check):
1.6Layout of general data on printing
There are a number of additional possibilities to arrange the data that are printed line by line on a report, as for example the general data on top of the report detail formula. When one clicks on the button “Configure data”for such a part of the report, there is a new column “Interspace”. With this you can insert empty fields. A negative value ensures that this field is concatenated with the previous field. With a value of -1 a space of 1 is inserted, with -2 2 spaces are inserted, etc.
Example of the report detail formula
Without interspace
With interspace
Configuration of the data on the report:
1.7Quantity of decimal numbers and sorting
- It is possible to determine the quantity of numbers after the comma for each column. In some cases the entered value is ignored. This is the case for the analytical values that are printed with the quantity of numbers after the comma as determined with the nutrient concerned. (Might be different for every nutrient). This value is obviously also ignored for text fields.
- It is also possible to determine on which columns one arranges the report and in which direction (ascending or descending). One can also sort on the columns that are not printed.
Example for the report “raw materials consumption and price” (in the screen configure layout and in the part “Raw material data”):
In the configuration window of the report there is a bar/button for every existent data block. The data blocks that have not been selected for the print are “closed”. Click on the bar to open the data block underneath the bar. One now has access to all the available options.
1.8Separate thousands
When configuring the layout, underneath the bar “Printer settings”, you can indicate that you want to separate the thousands. The division mark is always a space.
Attention:If this box is checked, some columns can become a bit wider. Make sure that the columns are set wide enough.
This option is also available in the label models under the bar default layout. It is not taken into account for the production of external files.
1.9Exponential notation
With all the reports it is now possible to indicate that large values have to be printed in exponential notation. This is now possible by way of the modification of the layout, under the bar “Printer settings”. Give in the exponent from which it has to be changed over to the exponential notation. If you for example enter 5, the values are printed in exponential notation from 100 000. If you enter 0, the normal notation will always be used.
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Result:
Notice that this setting is valid for all the values that are on the report. The values are shown with maximum 3 significant figures.
For labels this has to be set on the first tab page of the label model.
The exponential notation is not used in the text files that are ignored with the labels.
1.10Return to the selection window
When one clicks “Cancel or “Escape” while modifying the layout of a report or at the preview, one returns to the selection window. This is to avoid that you have to select the data over and over again, which is useful when one is testing a print profile.
1.11Save layout printpreviews per user
The way in which you want to see the report preview (larger, smaller, maximalised, etc.) is kept up per user per report. The most recently used layout of the report preview is applied again, also after closing and restarting Libra.
1.12Report profiles
All of the parameterized elements can be registered in a profile. Click the button “Profiles” at the bottom left of the screen to save a profile. The profiles can subsequently be selected in the first selection screen which allows you to manage the different layouts from one and the same report.
For every edition there are predefined profiles that you can use.
Attention: if you click the button “Profiles” in the selection screen, you will manage the layout profiles of the small window and not of the report.
1.13Possibility to choose a printer for every report
Tools Options category ‘Printer settings’
If one checks the option “Ask printer before every print-job?”,every time you print the question will pop up which printer should be used. Default (thus with this option unchecked) this is determined in the layout profile of the report.
2 Important reports
2.1Formulae
2.1.1Print detail formula
Menu: Print Formulae Detail
This print is available during an optimisation session and outside of a session. There are some small differences that are highlighted in the text.
System selection (not mandatory) and the specifications that you want to print
Optional: Nutrients to be calculated. If you do not indicate a nutrient, all the nutrients will be printed that have been selected in the formula. If you do not want to print any nutrients, you have to indicate this on the level of the layout (cf. further on)
Price list: optional. Is only useful if you have indicated in the layout that the files concerning this price list should be printed.
Print comment: only appears if you have specified it in your profile
Layout profile
Modify layout: if you want to modify the profile that you have indicated above or if you want to create a new profile.
Extra printout using selected profiles: if you for example choose “Detail formula” as a profile for the layout, and you check “Production-order” and “Rounded formula” as additional profiles, you get three different reports for every formula at once.
If we now look at the layout window:
Options in the first part :
First page only. To avoid a waste of paper, you can check this box. The formulae that can not fit on 1 page will be cut off after the first page, and the nutrients that are less important in general or a part of the raw materials will not appear
Decompose semi-products? Whit this option Libra will replace the semi-products by their composition. If a semi-product on its turn contains a semi-product, it is decomposed as well, and thus one after the other( with a precision that corresponds to the number of decimals that are used for the percentages of the raw materials).
Important: this option can also influence the nutritional values (only for certain columns that are recalculated cf. further on)
If you have a semi-product that has not been taken in production for several months, and you do not decompose the formula, Libra will use the nutritional values of the semi-product that were in use during the last transfer in production. If you do decompose, Libra will use the current values (of the raw materials in the semi-product).
Only if you have the module “complementary feed”:
- Print the external raw materials. If you check this, the complete formula will be printed, if not it is the complementary formula that you print. Make sure that the raw material columns and the nutrients that you choose correspond with this option.
- Group internal raw materials. If you check this (for a complementary formula), all the raw materials in the complementary formula will be regrouped on one line. The code, name, description etc. will be those of the complementary specification. This option is useful to adapt the complete formula, given the fact that it hides the composition of the complementary formula.
- If you check the two options mentioned above, you will get a report with one raw material that shows the complementary formula.
Only if you have the module “Variants”: Apply the current variants in the formulae in production. If you do not check this, the production formula will be printed with the variants that are in use on the moment of the transfer in production. If you check, the variants that have been indicated in the specification will be used. If the production formula contains a raw material that is no longer selected in the specification, it is still the variant of the production formula that will be used.
Remark: outside of a session you can only print the formula that is in production on that moment, but during a session you also print the work formula. The work formula during a session is always printed with its own variants.
Print title: this title will be shown at the top of the report with a larger font. For example “Production-order”.
Printcomment. This is the comment that you have entered in the first window. It will be shown under the bar “Details formulae”.
Formula comment. This is the comment that you can enter on the level of the formula, during the session.
Footer: this is a text zone that is saved with the layout profile that will be printed completely on the end of the report.
Print derived specifications: if one checks this, a list of formulae that are derived from the formula while printing will be printed
Bar “Formula title”
When you click on “Configuration”, you will get the next window:
Optionally you can print a title (in slightly bolder letters), with the fields that you can choose here: code, name, description, administrative code and/or factory identification, sequence code. The factory identification equals the specification code but without the first positions that indicate a system.
Details of the formula:
The details of the formula are printed under the title. The possibilities are fairly extended (click “Configuration”). Attention: the order in which the fields appear might be different from the order that is shown here. You can change the order by moving the lines in the configuration window. Remember that the fields will be printed first from left to right and subsequently form high to low (if you want to use more than one column).
The letter symbols are sometimes fairly long, in order to clearly distinguish between the different fields. You can always enter a private, specific letter symbol.
- Administrative code
- Sequence code of the specification
- Factory identification: specification code, without the first positions that indicate the system.
- Contamination code (informative field about the specification). This code must be entered by way of the menu Specifications Modify. The possible values can be managed by way of the menu Specification contamination codes.
- System code to which the formula belongs
- System name
- Data concerning the system address. Use this if you manage a system per customer, to show the data of the customer on the reports.
- Version. Outside of the session it is the version number of the production formula.
During the session it is the number of the version of the work formula. If you have loaded a formula that is or has been in production, you will see the number of the veritable version. If you have loaded a formula that has never been in production, or you have just optimised a work formula, you will see “0” as version.