The "Report Designer" serves to configure the tree view of reports, the supply of lists for output and the draft of report definitions.

The Report-Designer dialog is split. On the left side there are tree views on the 3 functional areas of reports, prints and definitions. On the right side the tree view settings are made for a selected entry.

• Symbol bar – The symbol bar provides the commands new, copy, delete, for the respective configuration category.
  • Additionally, the factory delivered standard reports can be transferred to your own configuration.
• Reports – Shows a tree of all reports, as appears later in the tree view of the report center. In contrast to the report center this list is not filtered, i.e., reports on the categories gas and water, which are filtered out in a long-distance heating project, are displayed.
• Print – A list of the printable report lists indicates. Each report list consists of a list of single reports (from the functional area of reports).
• Definition – Displays a tree view of sisHYD object types which evaluations are available for. Designated "report definitions" can be created under each object type. In a definition the object characteristics are stored which later become visible as report columns visible.
• Properties page – Displays a table of properties of the selected entry of the tree view. The list of properties varies depending on the type of object selected. For example, if a "group" is selected from the tree view of the reports, the properties page is empty. Properties represented in the illustration are displayed for a report.
• Reports – The tree view has a context menu for configuring the tree.
  
  • Entries can be moved within the tree drag & drop.
  • On the properties page the properties for the currently selected report are displayed:
    
    The following characteristics can be stopped or modified:
    • Report – Here the report building block for the current report from a swinging out list of the available report building blocks can be selected.
    • Type of report – Selection of the type of report:
      • Completely: Report for all objects or all objects of the selected selection of the appropriate object type,
      • Max: on a given number at entries limited report descending sorts according to a sort attribute,
      • Min: on a given number at entries limited report ascending sorts according to a sort attribute,
      • Time series: only for intermittent calculations.
    • Number of series – For the types of report Max and Min the max. number at objects can be stopped.
    • Sort column – Report attribute for the assortment of the report.
    • Sort direction – Sort direction (ascending or descending) for the sort column. For max and min reports the assortment is already determined and cannot not be modified here.
    • Title – Heading for the report. Thus, the report title of the report building block can be overwritten.
    • File name – File name for the export of the report.
    • Category filter – All characteristics of this category limit the visibility of the report to the report center.
    • Section – The visibility of the report limits to the selected section. If from the opening by hinges list the entry long-distance heating is selected, then the report for gas or WATER projects in the report center is not displayed.
    • Medium – Limits the report to a certain medium. Thus, reports can be limited to a certain medium limit e.g., in order long-distance heating reports to cooling water or water vapor.
    • Number of leaders – Limits the report to a network type (1-conductor/2-conductor or 3-conductor).
    • Network position – Limits the report to the objects of the selected network position.
    • All ladder – On long-distance heating reports, in which this option is activated, on symmetrical objects (nodes or pipes) all report attributes up to name for each network position are output. Thus it is possible to have a more compact result overview for multi-conductor system (2-conductor or 3-conductor).
    • All objects – If this option is set, also not calculated objects in the report result with are output.
    • Print – Serves to configure lists for the production of report collections. The following characteristics can be set or modified in the properties window:
      
• Reports – The list of the selected reports for the printing report list indicates.
  • The column selection dialog is opened by the button "…".
    
  • Over the arrow keys the desired reports for the printing report list can be selected and by means of „pinpoint on "and „arrow "the sequence of the reports to be changed off.
• With result summary – Option for the printing report list whether the summary is to be contained of the calculation as the 1st report of the report list.
• Lines per page – Number of lines of page per which can be output printed.
• Definition – Report definitions are created, copied and deleted using the context menu of the tree view. Additionally, the definition can be renamed (or click on the names).
  
  • Column selection – In the property list the editor for the column selection is in the category "general". Hereby the columns and their sequence for the definition can be set.
    
• The column selection dialog is opened by the button "…".
  
• Using the arrow keys, the desired characteristics can be selected and the sequence changed with "arrow up" and "arrow down".