Stardraw Cloud

The report designer

Reports are designed in the admin interface, in a designer with a toolbox of items to place, page header, body and footer, and a properties panel. An item is bound to a field; when a user runs the report against a project the fields fill in and repeating regions grow to fit. Expressions calculate totals, conditions and formats; parameters let the user choose what a report covers.

What a report can draw on

• The project and its settings, its products with quantities and every product setting, and the user who runs it.
• The drawings, placed on the page as they appear on screen.
• Cables, conduits and labels with the Cables Module; rack schedules with Rack Layout; weights and power with Physical Data; accessories on the bill of materials with Accessories.
• Snapshots, whose unique number gives every quotation, order and invoice a permanent reference.

Project reports and application reports

A report is published to your users, or kept as an administrator’s report that analyzes the application itself: the most popular and most profitable products, the most active users, application usage. Which roles may see a report is yours to decide. Starter reports come with the application: a bill of materials, a cable schedule, a rack summary and a product usage dashboard among them.

Output

Reports render on screen, print to PDF, and are produced server-side too, so the AI assistant and the API can generate a PDF without a browser.

Reports in detail