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If a Report definition file listed in the Report.CFG file is not present, a blank will
appear in the list of Reports. (There is no message that the file was not found.)
Created manually. Read by the MDB Report Generator whenever a PDB file is
loaded (normally whenever the Report Generator is started).
RPT Report template definition file
A text-format file which defines the layout of graphs appearing in a (single) Report.
Created manually (normally by Charnwood Dynamics) using any text editor.
Can be edited, but not by the faint-hearted.
There is as yet no documentation describing the entries in a report definition file, but
the files include comments and are organized in a hierarchical manner with section
names in brackets (‘[Page1Graph1]’ for example) for each entity on the report. Many
of the entries are easily understood, but some are rather obscure.
Entries which may easily be changed by the user are the text labels and graph titles
appearing on the report. All labels appear as quoted strings in a Static= entry. All
graph titles are defined by a Title entry at the beginning of each Graph section. The
Name= entry in each Graph section selects a graph from the Report Generator's
Graphs list (stored in the PDB file after being defined with the Graph: Design...
command).