water mark

system · June 7, 2006, 8:37pm

Hi,

I am wondering whether we can create a water mark in the report?

I tried at the back of chart, its working,but I dont know how to do at the back of table.

Can we have a water mark in a report containing tables?

Thanks
Sheema

vellachi (BOB member since 2005-07-11)

system · June 7, 2006, 8:56pm

Can you insert a cell and place your watermark in there?

ngosz (BOB member since 2003-09-25)

system · June 7, 2006, 11:34pm

If you can do this, then enlarge the cell to the size you want, maybe remove the borders, and place it over all the other tables. Then select the cell, select Format > Placement > Send to back.

jac (BOB member since 2005-05-10)

system · June 8, 2006, 12:04am

Jac,

I did the procedure you had said, (placement -> send to back), its working for the charts (as the member had mentioned).
The same process when you do it for a table, the image disappears. Attached is an example. The member wants a water mark behind the table. Meaning both thetable data and the image should appear merged without distrubing data. Or i can say the efashion logo should be transperent. GIF images would allow transperency but GIF are not supported in BO.

KhoushikTTT (BOB member since 2005-02-24)

system · June 8, 2006, 12:08am

It worked for me - I used a bitmap, and then removed the shading from the table…

jac (BOB member since 2005-05-10)

system · June 8, 2006, 12:16am

The image used is bitmap, I am not able to do it for Tables.

When you say removing the shading i dont understand???

Ok, here is what i did with the above attached sample.

Inserted a cell added the path of the image. In apperance tab i set the cell in reference to the table so that it merges behind the table,

Format->placement->Send to back (for the image cell)

KhoushikTTT (BOB member since 2005-02-24)

system · June 8, 2006, 1:22am

Hi,

Everything you did is perfect - you just need to do a few more steps. Select all cells in the table, and select FORMAT CELL. Select the SHADING tab. Under FILL, select the radio button labelled NONE.

jac (BOB member since 2005-05-10)

system · June 8, 2006, 1:44am

PS you’ll probably want to remove the borders from the table too.

jac (BOB member since 2005-05-10)

system · June 8, 2006, 3:11am

Hi,
I want to try some text at the back.
Its not possible.
Can you tell me how to do it.

Thanks
Vellachi

vellachi (BOB member since 2005-07-11)

system · June 8, 2006, 5:15am

Vellachi,

Please explain what you are trying to do. I don’t understand.

jac (BOB member since 2005-05-10)

system · June 8, 2006, 10:07am

My question is ,the background picture should always be a bmp or giff.

Cant I create a cell and write some text?

vellachi (BOB member since 2005-07-11)

system · June 8, 2006, 2:01pm

Thanks a lot Jac.

It works!

Thanks
Vellachi

vellachi (BOB member since 2005-07-11)

system · June 8, 2006, 11:26pm

Thank Jac got it working:)

KhoushikTTT (BOB member since 2005-02-24)

system · June 9, 2006, 12:29am

double excellent

jac (BOB member since 2005-05-10)

system · September 5, 2006, 10:54pm

This is an issue that BusinessObjects needs to address, there is no way of securing a BusinessObjects Report. I can create one in any spreadsheet or word processor that looks identical. To ensure that reports are those produced by BusinessObjects I would like a standard way of having a watermark on a template.

davidmo (BOB member since 2002-09-26)

system · September 6, 2006, 1:37pm

davidmo

I think that you are wrong about that type of security being a problem for BO to address. Any printed image can be replicated using a sophisticated enough drawing package and printer. The points at which security should be applied are database access, and physical security such as real security watermarks/other features in the actual paper.

If you consider the most likely items to be reproduced illegally( money) it is the physical security measures that are hardest to beat, not reproducing a convincing image.

nwdb

nwdb (BOB member since 2005-10-26)

system · September 6, 2006, 10:53pm

I agree totally, I never said that it would be the definitive answer to counterfeiting, but it would go along way towards making it more difficult for the average type user :? . In our situation, we have over a thousand managers who run monthly BusinessObjects reports and most of them would have the ability to duplicate a report, some of them do, just to re-arrange the layout even though it is supposed to be a standard corporate report. If we could fairly safely imbed our corporate report watermark then at least we do have a certain level of security.

The number of people that do break into secure things is usually inversely proportional to the strength of the security.

On Monday 4th September 2006, God said “Crikey, what are you doing here”
Goodbye Stevo.

davidmo (BOB member since 2002-09-26)