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As you first request a report, the report writer "Crystal Report Writer" reads the required Database(s) and produces a "Full View" of the data. This generally means that all of the data contained in the database is contained and displayed. There may be literally thousands of pages contained in that view. The report writer provides several tools allowing you to more specifically request some data (thus creating a different "View" of the data).
Many of your reports are interactive. That is you can use tools to alter the way you can view your data. For consistency, Common Form Elements that are used throughout BookAccents Report Facilities.
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Generally, when your cursor turns into a Magnifying Glass, this indicated that by double clicking, the report will expand showing detail about the information beneath your cursor. |
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When enabled, this will close the current viewing pane, and remove its viewing tab. |
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Toggles size of left frame. allows additional real estate on right pane. |
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Redo Report. Brings us the "Enter Search" Dialogue Box Again |
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As you develop different views of your report, you can move between them by clicking on one of these tabs. |
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This element provides navigation control. the arrows in order are: First Page, Next Page, Previous Page, Last Page. |
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You may specify type size for your report, varying from quite tiny to 400% of normal by selecting with this PullDown. |
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Brings up "Printer" Dialogue Box . This causes the printing of the "current" view of the report that is displayed. |
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Unless you specify otherwise with the parameters of this Dialog Box, even if a report has 1,000 pages, they will all be printed.
You can specify how many pages (range) of the report to print by using the features of the Print Dialog Box. |
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This ToolBox element allows input of search criteria for data contained in the current report. See next element shown below. |
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You then enter text to search for that is contained within the currently displayed Report View. |
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Allows you to write your own report, based on the data contained in the current report. |
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Some reports require a Report Starting and Ending Date. When you click on the date arrows, BookAccents conveniently displays a calendar for you. Just double click on the date you want. |
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This is the Report Select Expert Button. Depressing this button causes the report writer to change the view to the date range as selected above. |
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