General Tools: File

• Feb 13, 2019
• 3 minutes to read

The File toolbar contains the basic file management and printing commands.

These commands are divided into the following categories.

• Common
• Data

Common

Command	Large Icon	Small Icon	Description
New			Creates a new Snap document.
Open			Opens an existing document. A SnapControl can load a document in the following file format. DOC (Microsoft® Word® 97 – 2003 document); DOCX (Office® Open XML document); HTML (HyperText Markup Language); MHTML / MHT (Web archive, single file); RTF (Rich Text Format); TXT (Plain text); ODT (OpenDocument text document); XML (Microsoft® Word® XML document); The SNX format stores a Snap report without the document field data. Saving a document in any other format retrieves the required data values and excludes any information about the data connections defined by Snap. To apply the uniform layout and style settings of a specific document to multiple reports, open this document as a template. In this mode, the Save command becomes disabled to prevent open templates from being overwritten.
Save			Saves a document template to an SNX file. When saving a document for the first time, the Save As dialog will appear.
Save As			Saves a document template to a new SNX file. This command invokes the Save As dialog, allowing you to specify a name and location for a new file.
Export…			Exports a document into one of the supported third-party formats. A Snap report can be exported to the following file formats. DOC (Microsoft® Word® 97 - 2003 document). DOCX (Office® Open XML document); HTML (HyperText Markup Language); MHTML / MHT (Web archive, single file); PDF (Portable Document Format); RTF (Rich Text Format); TXT (Plain text); ODT (OpenDocument text format); XML (Microsoft® Word® XML document); Image (BMP, EMF, WMF, GIF, JPEG, PNG or TIFF format).
Quick Print			Sends a document to the default printer with default printing options.
Print			Invokes the Print dialog, allowing you to select a printer and specify printing options before printing.
Print Preview			Retrieves all data required to populate the report fields to assemble and preview a document before publishing, ignoring the current Editor Row Limit setting. Calling this command for a mail-merge document renders only one page of the document. To render a mail-merge document for a specified range of data records, use the Finish & Merge option in the Data Tools: Mail Merge tab.
Undo			Cancels the last change made to the document.
Redo			Reverses the results of the last undo.

Data

Command	Large Icon	Small Icon	Description
Add New Data Source			Invokes the Create Data Source wizard, allowing you to connect the document to a new data source and specify its data connection options (e.g., data provider, login information and connection name). A data table selected with the wizard is included in the data source. To add more tables and specify their data relations, use the Query Builder.