Specifications

Plan and Create the Report Design 81
ID Works Basic Version 5 Administrator’s Guide
Names
All report fields, regardless of their type, are given a default name
when they are created. Named fields are necessary to connect report
fields with Production Form fields and to select fields using only the
computer keyboard. You can change the field name at any time,
replacing the default name (for example, Text Field 1) with a
meaningful, easy-to-remember name (such as FirstName).
Field names can be up to 100 characters long and can contain any
character you can type on your keyboard.
Alignment
Variable fields have an alignment property. The choices available
depend on whether the field contains characters or graphical
information.
Sample Data
Variable fields that can contain characters let you supply sample data
for use when viewing the report block in Sample Data view and when
printing sample reports. You type information that might appear in the
field. Variable fields that can contain an image use a default image as
sample data.
Position/Size
All fields have position and size properties. You can change these
properties by typing new values in a dialog box or by using the
mouse. See the online help topics “Move a field” and “Change a
field’s size” for step-by-step instructions.
Fonts
You can select from many fonts for the text, static text, and date fields
on your reports. ID Works Designer uses Arial, an OpenType font that
is supplied with Windows, as the default font. See “Fonts” on page 35
for more information.
Variable fields that always contain characters let you specify that the
font size should automatically shrink to accommodate a large amount
of text. The font size shrinks to a minimum of 6 points. If at 6-point
type the text still does not fit, characters are dropped from the end.