Report Builder Interface

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When you first start the Report Builder a DOCUMENT MENU screen appears:

 

ReportBuilderMain

 

This screen is your "window" to creating/modifying reports, and printing reports that you have defined. Every time you want to print a report, or create/change a report you will use this screen.

 

The browse screen in the middle of the window uses a tree list to show what possible report categories and their associated report(s) exist. In the above example there is one report category (Report On Name), with no reports defined for it yet.

 

The buttons beneath the browse area perform these functions:

 

Print the currently highlighted report
Expand the tree to show all categories and their associated report file(s)
Contract the tree to show all categories and their associated report file(s)
Add a new report for the currently selected report category
Modify the highlighted report in the Report Formatter
Delete the highlighted report file
Close this window

 

You can right click inside the browse area to display a popup menu of choices that are identical to these buttons. As you add new reports the screen will update itself automatically; here is an example of a program with one report file:

 

 

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