• Reporting is for designing and generating reports with rich text editing features.
• Many of the options are available in the Reporting main toolbar:
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Description |
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Format: used to select desired paragraph format |
Font family: used to select desired font family |
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Font size: used to select desired font size |
Text Color: used to select desired text color |
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Background Color: used to select desired background color |
Bold: makes selected text bold |
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Italic: makes selected text italic |
Underline: draws an underline below selected text |
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Strikethrough: makes selected text strike through |
Align text left: used to set the text alignment with the left margin |
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Center text: used to set the text alignment to the center of the page |
Align text right: used to set the text alignment with the right margin |
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Justify: used to set the text alignment evenly between the margins |
Line Spacing: used to add spacing between the line of text. |
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Unordered List: used to create a bullet list |
Ordered List: used to create a numbered list |
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Outdent: used to outdent the text |
Indent: used to indent the text |
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Insert Hyperlink: used to insert a URL |
Insert Image: inserts an image in text area |
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Create a Table: inserts a table in text area |
Clear Formatting: used to clear current formatting |
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Editor Tab (selected) |
contains all the options to edit the report |
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Editor Tab Toolbar |
contains options about the queries including: Save Report: to save the report (done automatically) Insert Smart Part: for inserting the desired query in the report Report Designer: for filtering out data (from queries) as required |
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Rich Text Toolbar |
contains rich text options to visually design the report |
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Report Design Area |
Although Report design Area is a single entity, its contents are made up of the following two: |
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Report's static text |
User types in the desired text here and applies formatting using the rich text controls |
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Inserted Query |
User inserts the desired query(s) at the selected location. This shows up in the minimal form in the Editor Tab and as a data set in the Report Tab |
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Report Tab (selected) |
contains all the options to show the generated report |
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Report Tab Toolbar |
contains options to: Save As: to save the generated report in Word or PDF format |
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Report Area |
Shows the generated report |