Using the Text Editor to edit or add a report

Reporting : Native reporting system : How to edit or add a report : Text Editor : Using the Text Editor to edit or add a report

Use the Edit <report name> – Text Mode dialog to edit an existing report that requires a text editor. You can then run your report to query the database and produce the output to your desktop, your printer, or to a file.

Note Use a text editor to change report details if the report you want to edit contains one or more of these commands: MATRIX, DEFINE, POSITION, PARTIAL, and ORDERBY. Any report can be edited using the Text Editor even if the report content does not mandate its use.

The task list below is provided to help you focus on editing that report information:

▪Overview of editing a report in text mode

▪Editing or adding global report information

▪Editing a report in text mode

▪Report name, description, and ID (see Text mode – editing the report name, description, and ID)

▪Columns and column layout (see Text mode – editing the printed report column and column layout)

▪Extraction criteria (see WHERE command)

▪Body layout (see Text mode – editing the report body layout)

▪Sort criteria (see Text mode – editing the report sort criteria)

▪Duplicating a report

▪Deleting a report

▪Running a report