Opening an Existing Report

Open an existing report from the Welcome dialog or from the Open Report command from the File menu of the JADE Report Designer window.

By default, the Welcome dialog is displayed when you initiate the JADE Report Writer Designer application. However, you can disable the Welcome dialog, in which case open a report by using the Open Report command.

For details about accessing the JADE Report Writer Designer application, see "Invoking a JADE Report Writer Application", in Chapter 2.

To open a report from the Welcome dialog

  1. Start the JADE Report Writer Designer application. The Welcome to the JADE Report Designer dialog is then displayed.

  2. In the Open a Report list box, select a report to open or select all reports to display the Open Report dialog. The Open a Report list box displays your recently used reports.

    If you want to open a report that is not listed, select all reports. The Open Report dialog is then displayed. For details about using this dialog, see the following instruction in this subsection, starting from step 2.

  3. If you do not want the Welcome dialog displayed at startup, uncheck the Show this dialog at startup check box. The Welcome dialog is then no longer displayed when you next start up the JADE Report Writer Designer application.

    If you decide to bypass the Welcome dialog when you next start up, you can open a report from within the JADE Report Writer Designer application, described in the following instruction in this subsection.

    You can choose to display the Welcome dialog again on startup by using the User Preferences command from within the JADE Report Writer Designer application. For details, see "Setting User Preferences" under "Designing a Report", later in this chapter.

    Alternatively, click the Close button to abandon your selection.

The selected report is then opened in the JADE Report Writer Designer application window.

To open a report

  1. To display the Open Report dialog, perform one of the following actions.

    • Select the Open Report command from the File menu

    • Press Ctrl+O

    • Click the Open Report toolbar button

    The Open Report dialog, shown in the following image, is then displayed.

  2. Select the report that you want to open from the Reports list box or enter the name in the Report name text box.

    The Show reports for current schema only check box is checked by default for all schemas apart from the JadeReportWriterSchema. Only reports defined for the current schema or any superschema of the current schema are displayed for selection. To display all reports defined in the database for selection, uncheck the Show reports for current schema only check box.

    If your report is stored in a folder, double-click the folder name and then select your report from the list that is displayed. (For details about creating folders, see "Folders Menu", in Chapter 3.)

  3. To filter the list of report names in the Reports list box, perform one or both of the following actions.

    • To display only those reports that contain specific text in their report description, enter text in the Text contains text box. For example, if you enter Pay, only those reports that contain Pay in their description are displayed, providing a refined selection list.

    • To display only those reports modified during that period, select a last modified period from the Last modified list box. For example, if you select last week, only those reports modified in the week prior to the current week are displayed. The system default value of any time means that reports modified in any period are displayed.

  4. To further refine the display of reports, perform one of the following actions.

    • Click the Display Details button to display details relating to the last modified dates of the displayed reports. (This is the default display.)

    • Click the Display as List button to display the reports as a simple list.

    • Click the Display Properties button to display the report properties relating to the displayed reports.

  5. Click the Open button.

    Alternatively, click the Cancel button to abandon your selections.

The selected report is then opened in the JADE Report Writer Designer application window. For details about modifying your report design, see "Designing a Report", later in this chapter.