Diamond Version 5 User Manual: Data sheet and powder pattern

Data sheet contents

This article in brief:
- Overview
- Brief and compehensive configuration
- Data sheet settings.

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Overview

The data sheet displays the contents of the current structure as a tabular representation of the complete structure parameter set and associated information (e.g. bibliographic data). in the secondary pane (data pane). To open the data sheet, choose the Data Sheet command from the View main menu. By default, the secondary (data) pane is open, but if it has not yet been opened or has been closed before, the mouse cursor will change to split mode, that means you can shift the border line between graphics and data pane to adjust the appropriate width for the data sheet.

Alternatively you can click on the corresponding symbol in the main toolbar:

This and the following articles will inform you about the contents of the data sheet and how to print and copy the contents of the data sheet.

The contents of the data sheet can be "brief", "comprehensive", or "customized":

While "comprehensive" displays all information that is present in the current Diamond document, "brief" displays only a summary of the most important structural data.

Besides the options "brief" and "comprehensive", the data sheet can be customized by the user. The selection and order of the items as well as a few more options can be changed in the Data sheet settings" dialog. This is described in the following article "Customizing a data sheet".

Brief and comprehensive configuration

To switch between "brief" and "comprehensive" representation or if you want to customize the representation, click on Data sheet in the left part of the data sheet's title bar, which opens a dropdown menu, and open the Data Sheet Settings sub-menu.

The commands from the Data Sheet Settings sub-menu enables you to change the representation of the data sheet.

The contents of the data sheet can be "brief", "comprehensive", or "customized":
While "comprehensive" displays all information that is present in the current Diamond document, "brief" displays only a summary of the most important structural data. With other words, the "brief" version corresponds with the "data brief" of Diamond version 3, which was used in the same position as what is called now the "data sheet" in version 4, while "comprehensive" corresponds with the "data sheet" of Diamond version 3, which was displayed in a separate view.

To customize a data sheet (choose which data fields to display or not) and for more settings (e.g. font size), run the "Configure..." command, which opens the "Data Sheet Settings" dialog.

The following screenshot shows the sections and fields that are displayed in "brief" configuration. Note that the checkmarks in the tree list can only be switched on and off for "customized" configuration. Empty data fields do not appear in the "brief" configuration, i.e. there are no such blank lines as "<field name>     ".

In "comprehensive" configuration all sections and fields are used. Even fields with no content in are listed in the data sheet as "<field name>      ".

A list of all available sections and fields is asvailable in the next article "Customizing a data sheet".

For all configurations, you can use color coding (or not) and choose a smaller or bigger font in the Data Sheet Settings dialog:

No color coding
If this checkmark is set, the data sheet uses default light gray color, even if the Color coding setting (in the View main menu) is active and the current document contains more than one structure parameter set.

Font size
Here you can choose between "Regular (9 pt)" and "Smaller (8 pt)". "Regular" uses (approximately) the same size as the font in the menus and dialog windows and is used as default for the data brief, whereas "Smaller" is used as default for the comprehensive data sheet

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