Report Tab
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When you open a Report item from the Reports tab on the ItemType window the Report Tool opens. This is the standard Tear off Item Window including the standard menu bar and toolbar. Below that is the Report tab bar allowing you to switch between the Report details and the XSLT style sheet text editor. This section describes the Report tab, which is the Report Form. The Report tab is the page where you set up the Report. Here you provide its name, its type, the target window to show the Report results plus set up the query criteria to generate the data for the Report.
The following screenshot shows a sample Report that is of type ItemType, meaning the Report Query is a static query that searches for Vendor items. The AML query also limits the results by defining only the properties desired using the select attributes. The target is set to One Window, so the Report appears in a separate window when run from the client.
Figure 2.
Table 3 provides a description for each field on the Report Form.
Table 2: Report Form Fields
Field | Content/Comments | ||||||||||||
| Name | The Report name | ||||||||||||
| Description | The Report description | ||||||||||||
| Type |
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| Target | Where to show the Report results: in the main window, its own window, and all reports in one window. | ||||||||||||
| Location | Where the method for generating the Report is evaluated on the client or server. | ||||||||||||
| Report Query | The AML query or XSLT style sheet to make the AML query from the item depending on whether the type is set to Item or ItemType. | ||||||||||||
| Label | This allows us to specify the text, in different languages, of Menu entry for this Report under the Reports Menu of the Client interface. |