User Guide

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Reports
Reports Modes
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Siemens User Guide Version 2.1 A6V10415471_en_a_21
Building Technologies 2015-07-15
9.3.1 Edit Mode
When you create a new Report Definition, it opens in
Edit mode
(default mode).
Edit Mode allows you to design the layout of a report, delete a report, and so on.
You can also show/hide the Reports Ribbon using the Properties icon
.
Edit Mode
NOTE:
You can switch to
Run mode
by clicking the
Run
icon or
Run As
icon
present in the Reports toolbar.
9.3.2 Run Mode
The Run mode executes a Report Definition and displays the data retrieved from
Reports and other services. In Run mode, the ribbon disappears.
In Run mode,
the following occurs:
Keywords are replaced by actual data.
No element can be added or deleted in this mode.
You can perform the following activities:
Sorting (ascending or descending) or changing column width.
Selecting rows in tables [ 283].
Entering text in the Editable Field control.
Selecting text entries from the Custom Text Selection control or values of a
text group from the
Text Group Selection control.
Adding [ 283], Modifying [ 283], and Deleting [ 283] comments from
the
Comments table.
The STOP icon or the Stop button in the report management
section stops the execution of a Report Definition.
In Run mode, the layout elements are populated with data as displayed in the
following image.