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The layout information can be saved in a PDF file for the documentation purpose. It contains all the information related to a layout in tabular format. You can also get the layout details like Name, ID, Description, etc.

You can create the PDF for the following layouts:

• Advanced Database

• Advanced Positional

• Advanced Text

• Database

• Excel

• Positional

• Text

The first page of the PDF contains the Layout Name, Layout Description, Creation Date, Last Modified By, Last Modified On, Created By, Group Owner and all other fields.
List of other information contained in the layout PDF are explained below:The PDF also contains the metadata fields divided into two categories, simple hierarchy and complex hierarchy.   

For simple hierarchy the following fields are available in PDF:

• Field Name
• Field Type
• Format
• Sub Format
• Data Mode
  

For complex hierarchy the following fields are available in PDF:

• Record Identifier 
• Order
• Field Name
• Description 
• Field Type
• Date Format
• Time Format
• Start Position 
• End Position
• Length
• Align
• Skip

Generating PDF of a layout

• On the Layout page, click

• More menu and select View PDF option to generate the PDF.

  The PDF will be generated and saved in the specified folder

• based on

• the browser settings.