Text fields and data fields (Reporting)
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Text fields and data fields

Available fields

The assortment of data fields in the Report Items browser depends on the following factors:

  • The selected report type

  • The application you are using

Field types

The Report Template Editor provides the following types of fields:

  • Text fields are basically simple textboxes that can contain either static text or dynamic expressions. Text fields are, for example, used to display static headlines in a report template.

    In the Report Items browser, you find the Text field as a separate category in the top level.

  • Data fields are divided into two parts, label and value. The label contains a static text, the value contains a dynamic expression. Data fields are typically used to show specific data, for example the sequence name or the sample name. You can, however, modify both label and value according to your requirements.

    In the Report Items browser, you find all available data fields in the Fields category.

  • Complex custom fields are data fields that do not contain a single value but an entire XML structure. This XML structure contains both labels and values. You can configure the labels and values in the project settings in the Control Panel under Sample Custom Parameters and Compound Custom Parameters.

    Depending on the chromatography data system, the following complex custom fields may be available:

    • Injection > DiagnosticData : information on the injection, for example start pressure, stop pressure, or air temperature. The structure and the keys depend on the chromatography data system used. To add data acquired by OpenLab CSD, use the snippet Samples > Diagnostic Data. To add diagnostic data acquired by OpenLab CDS, use the Diagnostic data snippet under Samples. To add diagnostic data acquired by a ChemStation system, use the snippet under Samples > ChemStation specific .

    • Sample > CustomFields

      and

      Compound > CustomFields :

      All labels and values may be configured in the Control Panel, or they may be part of the imported method or data created by other chromatography data systems.

      To access the information, see Use custom fields in a report.

  • The fields Sample_CustomField01-10 and Compound_CustomField01–10 are a special type of custom field. They contain both label and value, separated by the pipe symbol "|". These custom fields might be configurable in your application, for example, in the method definition in ChemStation.

    In contrast to the regular data fields, the label shown for these custom fields is not the data field name (e.g. Sample_CustomField01) but rather the customized label information (e.g. "TabletWeight"). This is achieved by a combination of the Trim, Choose, and Split functions in the expression for the value. RTE automatically creates this expression.

    To access the information, see Custom fields 1-10

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