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This tab allows you to change some settings for the way the printable reports are generated.
Common Settings.
These are settings common to more than one report types.
Report Type.
This is the format the report will be saved as.
The text files are common files containing plain text.
The Comma Delimited (CSV) files are special formated files used to store data tables. This file format allows for the data table to be easily retrieved into a variety of applications (e.g. Those used to create spreadsheets and databases).
The Common Settings are:
Show empty cells for filtered data in Overview repors
This option can be used to hide the row data that does not match the selected filters. By default, the Overview report will show the data of a whole row if one item on that row matches the selected filter.
Highlight changes in Overview printable reports
This option can be used to color the up and down changes in the PDF, HTML and Excel Overview reports. The up changes will be colored in blue. The down changes will be colored in red.
Do not display empty charts
This option can be used for the PDF, HTML reports. If the charts do not have items, they will not longer be included in the report.
Alternate row background color in Printable Reports
This option can be used for the PDF, HTML and Excel reports. If this option is selected, the table rows from all reports will have an alternate background colors. One of the colors will be white and you can specify the other color. By default this color is light grey.
Alternate row background color in Interactive Reports
If this option is selected, the table rows in the interactive reports will alternate their background colors. One of the colors will be white and you can specify the other color. By default this color is light grey.
Trim spaces from the report file name
By default the reports are saved in files that contain spaces in their names (i.e. Current Rank). Since many users want to upload their reports on web servers this option gives a better compatibility with the file naming convetions.
Display colored square instead of coloring the text
For a better visibility of the printable and interactive reports this option will show a colored square in the left side of the keyword/URL instead of coloring the keyword/URL itself. This is useful if your selected color for a keyword is similar to the background of the report.
For PDF reports you have the following options:
Display column name in Overview.
You can choose to have the column names in Overview reports shown in three ways:
Horizontal
Vertical
Vertical if more than [number]
Font.
You have the option to change the PDF font from your report as follows:
If you select the "Use default PDF font" option, all the PDF reports will use the font listed in parenthesis.
If you uncheck the "Use default PDF font" option you can choose any Font and Encoding you want.
Asian Fonts.
Even if your system is not setup to use the Asian locale, you can select an Asian font so that the PDF report shows the Unicode characters correctly. Just deselect the "Use default PDF font" check box, and select the "Asian fonts" option, which will allow you to select an Asian font from the drop-down list.
For HTML reports you can choose to insert the table of contents by checking the first option.
You can save the images from the reports to a local folder from the [Browse...] button. This folder can then be easily uploaded to your website. To access the images from your website, just check the "Get images from URL" option and type the URL in the text box. From now on, all the HTML reports that you send will take the images from the specified URL.
If your Overview report contains a large number of search engines, you can choose to distribute them in rows by enabling the "Maximum of columns in Overview" option. This option will help you avoid crowded search engine rows and thus allows a better understanding of the displayed data.
If your Visibility report contains a large number of items, you can choose to distribute them in rows by enabling the "Maximum of columns in Visibility" option. This option will help you avoid crowded rows and thus allows a better understanding of the displayed data.
You can customize the way your HTML report's layout will look like, using XML and XSLT transformation files. You can customize each one of your report types.
You can customize the way your HTML report looks like, using different CSS styles. These styles can be selected from a set of predefined styles or can be user defined styles. You can find out how to select or add styles from the Customize CSS Styles section.
For Text reports you have the following options:
Font Settings.
You can choose to have in your report file as many characters per inch as you want (10 - 20 characters per inch) and the number of text lines (6 or 10 lines per inch).
Send email with text in body (not attachment).
When checked, the email letters you send will contain the reports in the body - as plain text. Else, your email letters will have attached the report file.
For the CSV reports you have the following options:
Separator character:
You can choose the separator character between tab, comma, semicolon or you can define your own separator character.
For the Excel reports you have the following options:
Select font name and size:
You can choose the font name from a list. The size of the font can also be selected from a range of 1 to 30 points.