The
basic Ribbon
2010 interface
is a Ribbon
2010 panel.
The picture below shows how it looks like:
The main
element of the Ribbon
panel is
the Application
Button and the menu that is
called by pressing this button. This is a main menu of the report
designer. Basic commands for work with reports in the report
designer are represented in the menu. The picture below shows a
menu of the application and its items.
The
Ribbon
menu of the
2010 interface is split on 6 group: New
group, Report
group, Page
group, Print
group,
Recent
Documents group and Designer
group. The first group is
represented by one of the main menu items:
The New
menu item
contains submenu where a list of new report components is available
for creation is shown.
The second
group from to is a set of items to
report control:
The Open
Report menu
item. When calling this menu
item, a dialog for opening a report will appear.
The
Open Report from Google
Docs item.
Used to open a report previously saved on the Google
Docs service.
The
Save
Report menu item saves changes in
a report. If a report was not changed previously, then the
Save
Report As menu item will be called
automatically.
The
Save
Report As menu
item.
When calling this menu item, a dialog for saving a report will
appear.
The
Save Report As to Google
Docs item.
Used to save a report on the Google
Docs service to a specified
collection.
The
Close
menu item
closes a report.
The third
group from to is a set of items to
control report pages:
The
Open
Page menu item. When calling
this menu item, a dialog for opening a
page will appear.
The
Save
Page As menu item. When calling
this menu item, a dialog for selecting place for saving a current
page.
The
Delete
Page menu item.
When calling
this menu item, a dialog for deleting a page or form will
appear.
The next
menu items from to represents separate group:
The
Print
menu item
contains submenu where a list of commands for report printing is
shown.
The
Recent
Documents menu item contains submenu
where recently opened reports are shown.
The next
group from to represents a group of items to control printing:
The
Print
menu item.
Contains a submenu which shows a list of commands related to report
printing.
The
Recent
Documents menu item contains submenu
where recently opened reports are shown.
The last
group from to represents a group of
items to control the designer:
The
Options
menu item
calls a window for designer parameters settings.
The
Exit
button closes
a report designer.
Clicking
this button the drop down list with the main menu groups appears.
This helps to quickly navigate menu groups..
The panel
shows a submenu of selected menu item or selected group.
|