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Can I use PCDmis report templates in Datapage?

I appologize in advance for what seems to be a puerile question. I am fairly new to datapage and there may be a really simple answer for my questions. I like all of the control that is available in PCDmis for report templates. It is, however, only good for the current run. What if some chucklehead in the front office asks me two months from now for a particular report on a part that shipped to the customer three weeks ago? I have all the relavent data stored in datapage, but am I limited to the canned reports available in datapage? Can I reverse the process and load data from datapage back into PCDmis? Does Datapage have a report editor similar to PCDmis? Can I load the report templates that I have created in PCDmis? Is there an option that I haven't considered?

Thanks for any support.
Jerry
  • I appologize in advance for what seems to be a puerile question. I am fairly new to datapage and there may be a really simple answer for my questions. I like all of the control that is available in PCDmis for report templates. It is, however, only good for the current run. What if some chucklehead in the front office asks me two months from now for a particular report on a part that shipped to the customer three weeks ago? I have all the relavent data stored in datapage, but am I limited to the canned reports available in datapage? Can I reverse the process and load data from datapage back into PCDmis? Does Datapage have a report editor similar to PCDmis? Can I load the report templates that I have created in PCDmis? Is there an option that I haven't considered?

    Thanks for any support.
    Jerry

    Nope, if you don't "print to file" when running Pcdmis, the Pcdmis reports are gone. There is an OLD STYLE LOOK-ALIKE measurement report in Datapage, but that's it.

    Personally, I never print-to-paper, I only print to file when running Pcdmis (as well as saving ALL data to Datapage). If someone wants hardcopy, they can print it themselves, all my hard-copy reporting is done through Excel (data from Datapage copy * pasted into Excel forms that report EVERYTHING!).
  • Nope, if you don't "print to file" when running Pcdmis, the Pcdmis reports are gone. There is an OLD STYLE LOOK-ALIKE measurement report in Datapage, but that's it.

    Personally, I never print-to-paper, I only print to file when running Pcdmis (as well as saving ALL data to Datapage). If someone wants hardcopy, they can print it themselves, all my hard-copy reporting is done through Excel (data from Datapage copy * pasted into Excel forms that report EVERYTHING!).


    +1

    "Measurement Report" in datapage is the one looks like pcdmis report (text only).
  • What about web reporting and saving reports as .pdf?

    Save the paper, but still have the pretty package of a report for those that numbers just don't suffice.. but blue edging and company logos... now THAT tells the whole story! Slight smile
  • What about web reporting and saving reports as .pdf?

    Save the paper, but still have the pretty package of a report for those that numbers just don't suffice.. but blue edging and company logos... now THAT tells the whole story! Slight smile

    That's what my Excel reports do, they do EVERYTHING. Logo, graphics, picture of the part WITH (a) labels or (b) mark-up or (c) tolerances or (d) ranges (user choice, change the value of ONE cell to change what's displayed). Prettiest report you ever did see. Has capability charts, summary reports, CMM-old-style report w/ in/out flag. Covers it all. I've got customers who say they would rather have and look at MY reports (excel) than the reports their upper management requires them to use.
  • Sending the report to a pdf is the way that we are able to recall our past in process layouts.

    The new DATAPAGE + will allow templates to be used in a similar fashion as PC-DMIS 4.0 and above does. The templates appear to be more user friendly than the PC-DMIS ones also so that is a plus. O would be careful with the new DATAPAGE + though, it is still in its' infancy and has many undocumented enhancements.