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Title Blocks

A title block can display information about the project such as the project name, Time Now, or the project start and finish date as well as a legend of the different bars for barchart reports.

To define a title block for a report, click Title Blocks on the View tab from the Printing group to display the Title Blocks dialog box. From this dialog box, you can create, copy, edit, or delete a title block. Clicking New, Copy, or Edit displays the Title Block Definition dialog box.

Note: If you edit an existing title block, you cannot change its name.

The Title Block Definition dialog box allows you to define the contents for as many as six different title blocks for the report:

  • Top left
  • Top center
  • Top right
  • Bottom left
  • Bottom center
  • Bottom right

You can specify the percentage of the header or footer that a title block can occupy by defining the location of divider lines marking the left or right title blocks. For example, by setting the divider lines for both left and right title blocks to 25%, you can define a header in which the central title block occupies 50% of the available space, or you can have Open Plan calculate the required width by using –1.

The contents of each defined title block can contain up to 5 lines of text defined and formatted by the user. Open Plan automatically aligns text appearing in title blocks as follows:

  • Text appearing in a top left or bottom left title block is left-aligned in relation to the left page margin.
  • Text appearing in a top center or bottom center title block is centered.
  • Text appearing in a top right or bottom right title block is left-aligned in relation to the divider line.

Each line can include literal text as well as text fields stored by Open Plan. To see the available text fields, click Fields to display the Fields dialog box. Text fields include the following types of information:

  • The project name, description, and manager
  • The project start and finish dates
  • The name and description of the current project baseline
  • The names of the project calendar and resource files
  • The client or company name (entered on the Summary tab of the Project Properties dialog box)
  • The current page number of the report
  • The total number of pages in the report
  • Time Now
  • The system date and time
  • The filter or sort that is currently in effect
  • The view description (entered using the Properties dialog box)

You can combine variable text items with literal text to define title blocks such as:

  • Report Created for <Client>
  • Time Now: <Time Now>
  • Page <Current Page> of <Total Pages>

A title block can also include a user-defined logo. To specify the logo for a title block, select Include and use the ellipsis button to display the Symbols dialog box that you use to select the logo.

Attention: For more information, see Custom Symbols.

The Access Control option is used to grant rights to other users in the data source to use the definition.

The References option displays the References dialog box, which has a list of items that use the title block. This list of items includes the file type, name of the project or file, description, and owner.

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