IdealWare Online Users Manual

GL4-09-01 G/L MAINTENANCE
28542 Report Generator Overview

 

PURPOSE

 

The Report Generator program enables you to design customized reports.

 

Within the Report Generator program you design your report by defining information via the following maintenance programs:

  1. REPORT CODES
  2. COLUMN HEADINGS
  3. SECTION TITLES
  4. MAJOR SECTIONS
  5. LINE TITLES
  6. REPORT DETAILS

The information defined in the maintenance programs must be added to your report in the sequence above.

 

The Report Generator Program is accessed from the:

  • G/L Report Generator Maintenance Menu

 

A report can be represented diagramatically as follows:

 

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Report                                       │
│ ┌────────────────────────────────────────┐  â”‚
│ │Major Section                           │  â”‚
│ │ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ │Section                            │  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ │ ┌──────────────────────────────┐  â”‚  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ │ │Report Detail                 │  â”‚  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ │ └──────────────────────────────┘  â”‚  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ │ ┌──────────────────────────────┐  â”‚  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ │ │Report Detail                 │  â”‚  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ │ └──────────────────────────────┘  â”‚  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ └───────────────────────────────────┘  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ │Section                            │  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ │ ┌──────────────────────────────┐  â”‚  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ │ │Report Detail                 │  â”‚  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ │ └──────────────────────────────┘  â”‚  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ │ ┌──────────────────────────────┐  â”‚  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ │ │Report Detail                 │  â”‚  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ │ └──────────────────────────────┘  â”‚  â”‚  â”‚
│ │ └───────────────────────────────────┘  â”‚  â”‚
│ └────────────────────────────────────────┘  â”‚
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘