Working with Reports

Lists

Reports

List of all the reports attached to the current application area, with their names and description.

The sort sequence can be defined by clicking the column headers of the list.

A filter located above the list can be used to limit the reports displayed.

Extended-selection list.

With correction environments, there may be a check mark in front of each report name.

A red check mark shows that the report is being held by the default correction.
A black check mark shows that the report is being held by a correction other than the default correction.

Context-sensitive menu

The following options are accessible at all times via the context-sensitive menu.
In addition, there may be buttons to perform the same actions on the right-hand side of the window, depending on the settings in the Create/Modify a software engineer dialog box's Preferences tab.

Create

This option opens a dialog box which is used to create a report.

Modify

This option opens a dialog box which is used to display or modify the general characteristics of the selected report.

This option is not active when no report is selected in the list.

Delete

This option deletes the selected reports, after confirmation.

When the deletion is validated, the list of reports is updated accordingly.

This option is not active when no report is selected in the list.

Copy

This option opens a dialog box that lets you copy a report.

This option is not active when one or several reports are selected in the list.

Attach

This option opens a dialog box which is used to attach one or several reports of the repository to the current application area.

Detach

This option detaches the selected reports from the current application area.

This option is not active when no report is selected in the list.

App. areas

This opens a dialog box displaying the application areas to which the selected report is attached.

This is not active when no report is selected in the list.

Analyze

This option opens a dialog box displaying all the batch type programs that use the selected resource.

This option is only active when one or more reports are selected in the list.

Layout mgr

With reports of Adelia kind:

This option is used to access the Screen Layout Manager or Report Layout Manager.

With reports of Crystal Reports kind:

This option is used to access the Crystal Reports Designer. A first intermediate dialog box is displayed in order to select the fields to be used for a given report.

This option is not active when no report is selected in the list.

Hold

This opens a dialog box enabling the selected reports to be held by the default correction.

This is only visible in correction environments.

It is only active when one or more reports are selected in the list and the user has a default correction.

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