Inform Report Designer
The Inform Report Designer is a powerful report authoring system providing
tools for designing and generating reports of analytical data from Thermo
Envision, which is part of GRAMS 8.0. Inform works by reading data from
Envision in GAML, the open standard XML-based format for storing and archiving
data from a wide range of analytical instrumentation. It then produces
a report, as defined by the user, in either screen preview form, printed
form or HTML display.
A run-time version of Inform is included as part of Envision, providing
a basic, non-interactive report generation system. The add-on Inform Report
Designer significantly extends Envision's reporting capabilities, allowing
report methods to be designed interactively, stored on file servers and
used by multiple users in non-interactive mode.
Here are some of the key benefits of Inform Report Designer:
- Highly customisable report objects such as tables, graphs, text blocks
and picture blocks allow you to present your data and results in a wide
variety of formats and designs.
- Report sections and page templates let you organize your data in different
ways in the same report, while still keeping a consistent page design
and appearance.
- You can establish data rules using an English-like syntax to filter,
group and sort the data in a variety of ways. Data rules can be applied
to tables, multi plots and even entire report sections to provide sophisticated
report design capabilities.
- Inform includes a report script so you can further customize your
report. Report script opens up the world of dynamic report design in
which report methods are 'smart' and are able to adjust appearance and
calculations based on the specific data being reported.
- Inform allows you to build a standardised report which works with
different types of analytical data, even from multiple vendors and from
different spectroscopic techniques. Inform capitalizes on the power
of the GAML data structure to support a wide variety of analytical data
in one reporting system.
- You can use specialised data items in addition to the GAML data items,
providing the ability to prompt for run-time data entry and to make
custom calculations easily.
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