You use themes to change the appearance of reports, making them more readable (e.g. bold headings and colored titles). Themes are accessed from the Setup menu of SYSPRO Reporting Services. A preview pane enables you to see the effect of theme changes applied to your report.
This pane contains the list of themes currently available. These include standard themes that ship with SRS, any customized themes that may have been created, as well as the option to apply no theme to the report.
Customized themes are saved in the \Base\ReportingCustomized\ReportThemes folder on the SYSPRO application server.
This pane lists all the sections of a report. These sections are further subdivided into objects (e.g. Report Header 1 section contains Text Items and Line Items).
This pane displays information relating to your selection in the Theme Objects pane. The properties that can be changed depend on the item that has been selected:
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Database Items |
These objects describe how data is shown in the section. Properties that can be customized include:
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Text Items |
These objects describe how text labels appear in the section. Properties that can be customized include:
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Line Items |
These objects describe how separator lines appear in the section. Properties that can be customized include:
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Box Items |
These objects describe how frames that box text items appear in the section. Properties that can be customized include:
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Using custom themes can lead to report inconsistencies since not all reports use the same sections in the same places. For example: Page Header 2 could announce a series of data on one report but represent column titles on another. Enlarging the font of this header and applying the theme to both reports may cause the column titles of the second report to overlap.
If you are designing a theme for a specific or similar report(s) open the report in Crystal Reports and take note of the different sections and what they represent on the report(s).
Although SRS reports are designed to work on Windows-based printers, you can print them to a dot-matrix printer if you create a theme and ensure that all the fonts are changed to the font supported by the dot-matrix printer. You can select this theme as the default theme for all the reports and prevent operators from changing themes when the reports are processed.