Chapter 14. Reports

Besides the results, the program also creates text reports during the calculations on the calculation, where much useful information on the calculation course, achieve deviations, etc. can be found. These reports can be stored in a file or printed out and serve as the calculation report.

How to open a report

To open a report, proceed in the same way as when opening any other data file. The only difference compared to the other file types is that no more than one report can be open at a time.

Before opening a report, you can choose in the dialog window Settings->Environment whether you want to use the internal editor of the GROMA program for editing or an external editor.

Internal editor

The internal editor looks like a data window displayed in the main window of the GROMA program. This window can be enlarged, diminished, moved or minimized to icon.

External editor

If you choose to edit the report using an external editor, only the report icon will display on the desktop of the main program window after opening the report. You can work with it normally, store in the reports using the button from the toolbar, move the icon, etc. To edit the entire report, choose items to recover the window on the icon (double click on the icon, using the menu) and the GROMA program will automatically launch the chosen external editor.

Note

Only one external editor can run at a time. After it is launched, you can switch to the GROMA program, but a warning is displayed with an attempt to re-launching the editor indicating that the previously launched editor must be first closed.

An editing window is displayed after opening a report – with outputs from the previous calculations, or empty if you created a new report. The text can be edited using the common editing keys, you can move or copy blocks of text to other applications, etc.