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- Overview
- Creating a label report
- Creation
- Information specific to the creation of labels
- Modifying the characteristics of labels
- WLanguage properties associated with the label reports
The report editor allows you to create "Label" reports. In this case, the report contains a Body block in which one or more labels are printed.
Creation - To create a "Label" report, click
 in the quick access buttons: - The window for creating a new element is displayed: click "Report" then "Report".
- The report creation wizard starts. In the wizard, select "Label".
- In this wizard, you must specify:
- the data source of the report (data file, query, ...). For more details, see Report data source.
- the information specific to the creation of labels.
Information specific to the creation of labels The information specific to the creation of labels is as follows: - the number of identical copies that will be printed for each label.
- the format of labels and/or the format of label sheet. This format can correspond to:
- a custom format:
- Select the "<Custom>" element in the "Make" combo box.
- Specify the format of label sheet on which the labels will be printed.
- Specify the format of labels.
- Specify the number of labels that will be printed across the page width.
- a preset format:
- Select the make of labels used in the "Make" combo box.
- Select the model of labels used in the "Model" combo box.
- The information specific to the labels used (caption, size of labels and number of labels printed across the page width) is displayed.
Note: Check the "Inch" option to display label sizes in inches.
Modifying the characteristics of labels Once the "Label" report has been created, you can modify label characteristics at any time: under the "Modification" pane, in the "Report" group, click on "Format and labels". WLanguage properties associated with the label reports The following properties are associated with the "Label" reports. These properties are used to dynamically configure (through programming) the format and print mode of labels. Note These properties can only be used on "Label" reports.
| | | HSpace | The HSpace property is used to determine and modify the horizontal spacing between labels in a report. This spacing was defined when creating the Label report. | | LabelHeight | The LabelHeight property is used to:- Find out the height of labels in a Label report.
- Modify the height of labels in a Label report.
| | LabelNumberToStart | The LabelNumberToStart property is used to:- Find out the number of the label on the label sheet from which the print will be performed.
- Modify the number of the label from which the print will be performed on the label sheet.
| | LabelWidth | The LabelWidth property is used to:- Find out the width of labels in a "Label" report.
- Modify the width of labels in a "Label" report.
| | NbLabel | The NbLabel property is used to:- Find out the number of labels printed across the page width.
- Modify the number of labels printed across the page width.
| | NbLabelCopy | The NbLabelCopy property is used to:- Get the number of copies of identical labels.
- Change the number of copies of identical labels.
| | VSpace | The VSpace property gets and sets the vertical spacing between the labels in a report. This spacing was defined when creating the Label report. |
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