Overview

The Jade Report Writer Designer application enables you to define the layout and content of your reports. It provides you with a graphical approach to designing your reports, enabling you to place text, database fields, and graphics in the appropriate places on the report and then providing the option to set properties for those items.

Report designs must be based upon a previously created reporting view. For details about creating a reporting view, see "Configuring the Jade Report Writer", in Chapter 3.

The Jade Report Writer Designer application incorporates the following features.

• Full graphical interface for designing reports

• Creation and use of templates

• Profiles to provide different views of the same report

• System preferences to tailor the report design formats

• User preferences for toolbar, layout, and appearance options

• Report options and formats for text, currency, numbers, date, and time

• Scripting facility for calculating and setting field values

• Report organization through group levels

• Report totals at group and report levels

• Sorting capability

• Header, footer, and page numbering at group and report levels

• Print preview

• Select multiple items by:

  • Clicking and dragging a rectangle so that all fields, lines, and boxes within the rectangle are selected

  • Right‑clicking in a report section and selecting the Select All command from the popup menu to select all fields, lines, and boxes in the section

  • Selecting the Edit menu Select All command to select all fields, lines, and boxes in the report