CIB merge offers - in direct connection with further CIB components - useful additional functionalities for dynamic document generation or for the evaluation of such a document project.

Dynamic charts with CIB chart
Document analysis with CIB report&analyse

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Dynamic charts with CIB chart

Often the tables in raw texts, which are filled with current data by CIB merge, are not informative enough. A supplement by an optical business graphic, for example by a line, pie and bar chart, is desirable here. Of course, these graphics must be generated dynamically, also from the same current data of the application.

CIB chart is a module for the creation of dynamic business graphics, both for screen interface and for integration into documents. The product CIB chart consists of:

• the CIB chart designer which enables the text organizer to create graphic templates
• the CIB chart generator which is used at runtime of CIB merge to generate diagrams from supplied variable data.

The CIB chart designer is a stand-alone Windows application and is used by the text organizer to design a graphic template with sample data. The template is an Enhanced Metafile (EMF) with extensions in the form of CCR (=CIB chart Resource) commands.

This EMF shows the example graph based on test data with the layout (colors, dimensions and labels) designed by the CIB chart designer. It can be displayed with the usual graphic tools, such as the preview in Windows Explorer.

In Microsoft Word, the EMF can be inserted, positioned and scaled comfortably like any other graphic file via the menu option "Insert/Graphics/File...".

The CCR extensions in this graphic transmit the settings and data made in the CIB chart designer to CIB merge or CIB format. This allows the desired business graphic to be created at the time of document creation using the practical data available at that time and the layout predefined by the text organizer.

Document analysis with CIB report&analyse

Many users create very complex document projects. In order to generate internal project reports or to carry out weak-point analysis in document modelling, there is the possibility of a "CIB report&analyse".

This reporting procedure is also integrated into the CIB workbench (AddIn under MS Office). Its use is described in a separate detailed guide.