Creating and managing reports for printing

Reports are useful if you regularly print a module using the same view and page setup. When you create a report, you associate a selected view and page setup with the module for printing purposes. You can then print the module from the database explorer, without having to navigate to and open the module.

About this task

Use the report wizard to create reports for a module. In the module window, click Tools > Wizards > Report, and step through the wizard. For more information about the screens on the wizard, click Help.

Note: A report is not a copy of a module at a particular point in time which can be printed later. It is an association between a module, a page setup, and a view.

When you print or view a report, the module is opened read-only, the view that is associated with the report is displayed, and the page setup that you selected is applied.

You manage all the reports that have been created in the database from the Manage Reports window.

Procedure

  1. In the database explorer, select the project that contains the module whose report you want to print, view, or delete.
  2. Click Tools > Manage Report to see a list of modules that have reports associated with them. Indented below each module is a list of its reports.
  3. Select the report, and then either:
    • Click Print to print it. This command opens the module and loads the view associated with the report, and then displays the standard Print window. Use the Print window to specify which printer you want to use, what pages you want to print, and so on.
    • Click View to open the module and load the view associated with it.
    • Click Delete to delete the report.
  4. When you are finished, click Close.
Related concepts:
Printing and reports
Related tasks:
Creating, editing, and applying page setups
Printing modules

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