You can control the process of generating a PDF report file using a workflow comment. For general instructions on the PDF workflow comment see Generating and printing a PDF report using rules.
To produce PDF reports, create a PDF workflow comment as follows:
- Create a new report section with the name WORKFLOW. Do not specify that this heading should appear in the report.
- Prevent any comment in this report section from being included in the textual report, i.e. disable this report section. You do this by right-clicking the report section, choose “Disable Report Section…” and then build a rule with no conditions.
- Create a comment in this section in the following format. Note that the text in green is an expression inserted into the comment.<PDF> <FILE> Surname append “_” Given append “_” append
most recent episode append “. pdf” </FILE> <PRINT> 1 </PRINT> </PDF>.
If the resulting expression contains folder separators or illegal characters these will be replaced with spaces. - Add the comment to the report so that it is given unconditionally (i.e. with no conditions so that it is given for every case).
To insert a signature graphic at the end of the report, add a comment (without conditions) at the end of the report using the format
<image> <file> Signature.jpg </file> <scale>15</scale> </image>
Dr A B Cee
PhD FRACP
where Signature.jpg is a scanned image of the signature stored in the directory /RippleDown/bmd/. The scale parameter allows you to resize the image.
See also:
Generating and printing a PDF report using rules