Tip #154:  Adding Headers and Footers to a Report Method in Empower Software

Welcome back to Get Empowered! In the last Empower tip-of-the-week post for Empower Chromatography Data Software, we learned how to modify the sample information group (Tip #153).

In this week’s tip, we will learn how to add headers and footers to a report method. Headers and footers are composite groups and are added in the Header/Footer view. Advantages of adding a header or a footer is the ability to paginate the report and add a company logo.

Let’s get started.

Step 1

Continuing from Tip #153, let’s improve the appearance of the report in the main page view before we add the header & footer. In Report Publisher, click and drag the chromatogram and peak table back under the sample information group (figure 1).

Figure 1

Step 2

Select all three groups and from the ‘Layout’ menu select ‘Align Controls > Center’ (figure 2).

Figure 2

Step 3

In Preview, you’ll see the three groups are now centered (figure 3).

Figure 3

Step 4

In the Report Publisher, Click the ‘Header/Footer View’ tool and note three new tool icons which appear on the far right side of the toolbar (figure 4).

Figure 4

Step 5

Starting from the left, the first tool icon allows you to switch between the Header field and the Footer field. The middle tool icon gives you the ability to put a unique header/footer on the first page of a multipage report. The final tool icon gives you the ability to put the same header/footer on all pages. You can put a unique header/footer on the first page (perhaps with more detail) and then a simpler header/footer on the remaining pages (figure 5).

Figure 5

Step 6

Expand the Composite Groups on the left by clicking the ‘+’ symbol, double click ‘General Header’ and select ‘Paste Data Into Header’. Click ‘OK’ (figure 6).

Figure 6

Step 7

Double click ‘General Footer’, select ‘Paste Data Into Footer’ and Click ‘OK’ (figure 7).

Figure 7

Step 8

Scroll down on the right side of the window and then click & drag the group to the bottom of the Footer field (figure 8).

Figure 8

Step 9

In Preview, we see the final report with the header & footer (figure 9).

Figure 9

It’s that easy!

Question: How do you modify a header or a footer? We’ll cover that next week in Tip #155.

Final Note:  This procedure can be followed using the QuickStart or Pro interface.

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Next week in Empower Tip #155 – Next week we will continue our series on Report Methods.

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