Customize Print Areas

Information

• With the help of print areas, header and footer are defined for printing:
• A print area is a data area and can be assigned to a module like a normal data area.
• Data fields in a print area may include, e.g.:
  • Module title
  • Date
  • Page

Standard Print Areas

Information

• If a module has no own print areas, the print areas of the module deposited in the Skin of the logged on user in the Module for print area data field, are displayed by default.
• If a module contains individual print areas, they will be used instead of the default print areas.
• If a module does not contain any individual print areas and if no module with default print areas is stored in the Module for print areas data field, no header and footer are displayed upon printing.

Individual Print Areas

Settings for a print area

• The print area has no DA class, it receives the DA class = 0 like a normal data area.
• Assign the required data fields.
  • You can assign any field to this print area.
  • If you want particular texts which do not exist as DIs to be displayed in the print area, you can use the background DI (DI025581) in which you can store the required text or the variables for print output objects in the Print text parameter.
• The DDI is one of the assigned data fields..
• In the Standard value parameter, the assigned data fields contain variables or fixed values.
• In order to give a print area a more attractive layout, it is sensible to define it as a form via the Layout parameter.
• Assign the print area to the required module.
• Define in the Positioning whether the corresponding print area is to be displayed as a header (value 3) or footer (value 4) on the printout.
  • Other parameters are not to be edited.

Note

• Print areas cannot be indented.
  • Fields within print areas can be indented via the field positions (X pos. F, Y pos. F, X pos. Hdg, Y pos. Hdg).
• In modules without individual print areas, the Standard Print Areas are used.