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Report Overview and Output

As you did in "Accounts Receivable Report," you will again perform the following five basic steps to create the report definition:

  1. Create the initial report layout.
  2. Access and order the data.
  3. Define new fields.
  4. Design the report layout.
  5. Preview and save the report definition.

Follow the step-by-step instructions provided in this chapter to create the report definition for the Customer Address report. Figure 1–2 shows the first page of the Customer Address report.

For this report, you attempt to fit the address information onto one line; therefore, the information does not appear in the standard address format. The Customer Address Sample report definition in the Tutorial.prl report library creates this report. However, you should perform the steps in this chapter to learn the new tasks.

To perform the tasks in this chapter, you must:

Although this exercise directs you to preview the report at specific steps, you can preview it at any point during the creation of the report definition.


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