Creating Custom Report Templates for SKF Analysis and Reporting Module

You can output data from SKF's Analysis and Reporting Module (ARM) to Microsoft Word documents, using template files and bookmarks to produce documents formatted however you wish. You design your document in Word and save it as a template file, with bookmarks located where you want the text or graphics to go, then link these to a Word report in the Analysis and Reporting Module. If you want to output more than one record to a single document, you will need to use a special numbering convention in order for this to work.

ARM comes bundled with a number of predefined templates and associated reports that you can use as examples or to get you going. Note that for output to Word documents, Microsoft Word must be installed correctly on your system and be registered (as happens normally) as an automation server. The Analysis and Reporting Module does not do the actual writing of the documents, rather it controls Word invisibly to do this. ARM will generate Word documents using any version of Word, from Word 2000 forward.

This document gives instructions on how to create templates in Word and add bookmarks to them. Note that Word 2003 was used for the examples here; other versions of Word may be slightly different, but the principals remain.