Hi,
I'm not new to GiNT but I am new to report designing. I basically inherited a GiNT library and I would like to make some changes to the report design for borehole logs and create a report for fences. I have found the tutorials for report design (logs and fences) and went through them. I am however, still running into a couple of issues and I was hoping I could get a little help on them. I'll detail below:
1. I would like to add a water level table into the input tab, when I follow the directions through the tutorial it seems like the project database is missing or something and I can't seem to find the tables that are even in the input. I did create a library table for it but can't seem to add it to the inputs.
2. I have created a fence report and imported a title block from the tutorial to use as it has most of the relevant information I need. however, I cannot seem to get the Client, Project #, etc... to populate (I guess I'm unsure how to actually link these to my library).
3. I have tried adding in samples to my fences as a multiple fence column (as per the tutorial) however, I cannot seem to get the samples graphics to populate (image below shows my inputs for it) on the report (i.e. they don't show up beside my fence as they do in the tutorial.
Is anyone able to take a few moments to guide me on this a bit? It would be much appreciated.
Thank you!
Hi Jerrold, I was in your shoes not that long ago and feel your pain. Here are a couple of quick pointers:
1. The Water Levels table (tab) may be hidden. To check for hidden tables, you need to go to "Data Design", and then the "Project Database" tab (it may open there). Then from the menu items, select File>open file>open current project; then from the menu select Tables>List. This should pop up a box with all your tables that includes a row of check boxes to show or hide table. Look to see if there is a Water Levels table that is checked (hidden); if so, uncheck it and go back to Input and it should be there. If not, you will need to create the table in Data Design, or import the table from a database that has it.
2. The Client, Project number, etc. is read and displayed from your project database in the generic format <<TABLE.field>>, where the "Tables" are your tabs, and the "field" are your columns in that table. Note that the spelling needs to be exact for these to work (but caps/no caps has no effect). Not seeing your database and assuming Table and Field names, the expression in your title block will need to be something like <<PROJECT.Client>>, <<PROJECT.project number>> etc. Note that tables and fields can have "captions" that you see on the screen tab names, but the actual name you need to use may (or may not) be different. To check the actual name of a field, right click on it and select "Field Properties" from the context menu. This will pop up a box that shows the field name, and caption (if any). To check the actual name of a table, you need to go to the table "List" in Data Design" that I described above. You will then need to click on the expression in your Title Block (you may need to edit these in a "Block" or "Drawing Library" depending how the Title Block was created) to see if the <<TABLE.field>> are the correct ones from your database, if not edit them as necessary.
3. The graphic column you are using is looking at your database for a table/field <<SAMPLE.type>>. So in your Sample tab, you need to have a Field "Type" that is populated with a sample graphic. If that field does not exist, or if it is not populated, it will not show anything. There may be some other issues, such as the "Bottom Sample Depth" expression being a User System Data expression that could be referencing fields that don't exist in your database, the USD expression doesn't exist in your Libary, or are referenced fields are named differently.
Hope this helps
Bill