Report headers, footers, and page setup

Tekla Structural Designer
Modificado: 2 Maio 2025
2025
Tekla Structural Designer

Report headers, footers, and page setup

Customize the report page setup and headers/footers through:

  1. Modifying font styles, margins, and tables via Settings (Report ribbon).

  2. Changing paper size, orientation, and margins via Page Setup (Report ribbon).

  3. Selecting a logo and customizing header/footer text via Edit Header/Edit Footer (Report ribbon).

  4. Creating new header/footer layouts via Edit Header/Edit Footer (Report ribbon).

  5. Adding project details via Project Wiki (Home ribbon).

  6. Changing individual object orientation using orientation icons.

Modify font styles, margins and tables via Settings

Report settings allow you to modify the appearance of reports. You can adjust, for example, paragraph styles, page margins and numbering, tables, and headers or footers.

  1. On the Report ribbon, click Settings.

    The Settings dialog box opens.

  2. In the Settings dialog box, do one or more of the following to adjust the report settings:
    To Do this
    Customize the paragraph styles in the different areas of the report Go to the Styles page and adjust the settings according to your needs.
    To Do this
    Adjust the page margin width, page numbering, and margin frame Go to the Page Options page and adjust the settings according to your needs.
    To Do this
    Adjust the appearance of tables Go to the Table Options page and adjust the settings according to your needs.
    To Do this
    Define whether headers and footers are displayed, adjust image width and paragraph spacing, and control page breaks Go to the Document Options page and adjust the settings according to your needs.
    To Do this
    Adjust the appearance of fonts used in pictures and force diagrams Go to the Picture Fonts page and adjust the settings according to your needs.
  3. Click OK.

    Provided that you adjusted the report settings of an active settings set, the new report settings are applied to the report.

Change paper size, orientation and margins via Page Setup

The Page Setup dialog box allows you to modify the paper size, orientation and page margins for all reports in the current model.

  1. On the Report ribbon, click Page Setup.

    The Page Setup dialog box opens.

  2. In the Page Setup dialog box, do one or more of the following:
    To Do this
    Customize the paper size and source Select the required Size and Source from the droplists.
    To Do this
    Change the orientation of all pages Select the required Portrait or Landscape radio button.
    To Do this
    Adjust the page margins Enter the Left, Right, Top and Bottom margins according to your needs.
  3. Click OK.

    The new page layout is applied to all open reports.

Select a logo, address and other header/footer text values

This task can only be performed when a report is being displayed.

  1. On the Report ribbon, click Edit Header.

    The Document headers/footers dialog box opens.

    To Do this

    Specify a company logo

    1. In the Available fields list, select Company Logo.

    2. Click the ... button to browse to the location of the required logo and open it.

    To Do this

    Specify the fields to be included in the address

    1. In the Available fields list, select Address.

    2. Under Field properties check that there are sufficient fields in the Included fields list to fully define your company details.

    3. If necessary move fields between the Available and Included fields lists using the use the << and >> buttons.
    To Do this

    Specify text values for each of the fields you want to display

    1. In the Available fields list, select each field that you require.

    2. Enter the value to be displayed in the field.

    3. If you want the field label to be displayed above the value, select Show description.
  2. Click OK.

    For those fields included in the Header and Footer layouts, the values are displayed.

Tip:
  • Large logos are automatically resized to within the column width in which they are placed. However, using smaller images in PNG format saves memory and speeds up exporting reports.
  • To include more images in the header, click Add Image Field, type a name for the field and selected the desired image.

Create a new header/footer layout

  1. On the Report ribbon, create the desired report and click Show Report.

    The report is displayed.

    Note: If either the header or footer are not being displayed, check that they haves not been switched off in Report Settings.
  2. On the Report ribbon, click Edit Header.

    The Document headers/footers dialog box opens.

  3. According to your needs, go to the Headers or Footers page.
  4. In the Available layouts section, click New.
  5. Type a name for the new layout in the Name field.
  6. According to your needs, do some of the following to adjust the header layout:
    To Do this
    Remove an existing field and create an empty shell
    • Hover the mouse pointer over the field in the Current layout section until the field name is highlighted.
    • Click the field that you want to remove it and replace it with an empty cell.
    To Do this
    Place a field into an empty cell or replace an existing field
    • Hold down the left mouse button and drag the field from the Available fields list into the desired cell.
    To Do this
    Merge cells
    • Hold down the left mouse button and drag over the cells that you want to merge.
    • To unjoin previously merged cells, right-click the merged cell and in the context menu, select Unjoin.
    To Do this
    Modify the field alignment within a shell
    • Right-click the required cell in the layout.
    • In the context menu, set the horizontal and vertical alignment options as required.
    To Do this
    Insert or remove rows or columns or change their alignment
    • Right-click the layout.
    • In the context menu, select the desired command.
    To Do this
    Change column type, width and alignment in the layout
    • Under the Current layout section, click Edit...
    • Adjust the column properties according to your needs.
    • Click OK.
  7. Click OK.

    The new layout is created.

Add project details in the header/footer

  1. On the Home ribbon, click Project Wiki.

    The Project Wiki dialog box opens.

  2. On the Project Summary page, type the project details in the available fields.
  3. Click OK.

    The project details are saved.

    Note:

    When you go back to the Report ribbon, remember to update the report to display the project details in the header.

Change the orientation of individual objects

  1. Display the report to be edited.
  2. In the body of the report, hover the cursor over an individual image or table for which you want the page to be re-orientated.
  3. Two icons (landscape and portrait) should appear at the top right.
  4. Click the required icon to re-orientate the page containing the object.
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