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Printing Templates

For the generation of Invoices, Order Confirmations and Purchase Orders; Gravity uses Microsoft Word templates to design the form layout, colors and fonts.

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Users can create default print templates when the initialize the first record for each document type.

Note:

  • Print Templates are unique to each entity. This way each entity can have personalized formats.
  • An Entity can have more than one version of a selected document. For example multiple Invoice formats can be created for different types of customers.

Template Example

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Summary

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Upload/Download templates

Use these controls to download existing templates or upload new templates .

Template Name

Enter a name for the Template

Transaction Type

Select the type of Transaction the template will be user for:

  • Invoice
  • Order Entry
  • Purchase Order

Description

Enter a description for the Template

Tips for creating or editing templates

  • Use Tables in Word to align fields and maintain their appropriate position on the form.
  • Embedded fields can be adjusted with font and color controls
  • Embedded field can be aligned in table cells using the standard Word alignment.
  • Logos can be embedded in the document using a table cell.
  • Use Word controls to hide or show gridlines

Custom Fields

Each template maintains the Gravity schema in it when it was created. When custom fields are added to form a new Word templated must be created to enable the updated schema. the process is:

  1. Open a record in the form you want to create the template for.
  2. On the form menu select Word Templates->Download Template
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Select the types of records that you want linked to the original form. On the Invoice the default records would be:

  • Invoice
    • 1:N
      • Invoice Lines
    • N:1
      • Customer
      • Customer Bill to Address
      • Customer Ship To Address
      • Entity Configuration



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Download the template and the new fields will be included. To transfer and existing template layout:

  • Select all the fields in the original template
  • Copy all the fields
  • Paste the fields into the new template
  • The new template will have the original layout ply=us the schema of the new fields.

Note: Do not upload the new template to the form. It must be uploaded under the Printing Templates option.