Personalizing reports

In the Customization > General > Report Settings section of your Settings App, you can customize Alloy Navigator Express reports.

Specifying the logo and web site address

By default, Alloy Navigator Express embeds Alloy Software logo and web address when generating reports. The logo appears in the upper right corner of each report page and it provides a hyperlink to the company’s web site. When the user clicks the logo in the Print Preview window, the specified URL opens in the web browser.

If you prefer to display the logo of your company and use your company’s web address, you do this as follows.

To add a custom logo to reports:

1. In the Settings App, navigate to Customization > General > Report Settings.

2. Under Report logo, click Load.

3. Browse for your custom logo image and click Open.

   PNG, JPG, BMP formats are supported. The logo area is 50 pixels high; larger images will be scaled down, keeping the aspect ratio.

4. Click Save on the Standard toolbar.

To export and save the current report logo as a file:

1. In the Settings App, navigate to Customization > General > Report Settings.

2. Under Report logo, click Save as.

3. Browse for the folder to save the file to, change the file name, if needed.

To remove the logo from report pages:

1. Click Clear.

2. Click Save on the Standard toolbar.

Changing the default locale

The default locale for reports determines how all pre-packaged reports display locale-dependent values, such as date, time, and currency. This guarantees that all reports use consistent formats, regardless on the user's browser locale, system locale on the technician's computer, or the globalization settings on the IIS server.

TIP: A locale is a set of settings that defines the user's language, country and other regional preferences in the user interface. A locale identifier consists of a language identifier and a region identifier. For example: fr-FR for French (France).

Initially, Alloy Navigator Express uses the locale settings from the computer where you run the Database Management tool to create your Alloy Navigator Express database. If needed, you can change the default locale for reports.

The default locale affects all pre-packaged reports and applies by default to custom user reports. In order to override the default locale, use the "Language" report property.

To change the default locale:

1. In the Settings App, navigate to Customization > General > Report Settings.

2. Under Default report locale, choose a new default locale from Locale drop-down field.

3. Click Save on the Standard toolbar.

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