Progress
Report Builder
User’s Guide
Viewing Report Definition Specifications
Report Builder allows you to display or print a report definition specification that summarizes the report definition.
Follow these steps to print or display a report definition specification:
- Choose Report
Print. The Print dialog box appears:
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- Select Report Specification from the Print drop-down list.
- To view the specifications, choose Preview.
- To print the specifications to a printer or file, optionally choose the Print to File option and specify the filename, then choose Print. Report Builder prints the specification to that destination. For printed output, Report Builder uses the first fixed-pitch font available on the current printer.
This specification summarizes the following report information:
- Versions of the software used to create the report definition (Report Builder, MS-Windows, and MS-DOS)
- Report definition name and version
- Current date and time
- Report library that contains the report definition
- Date and time the report definition was saved
- Printer format information, including print options, page layout, and record layout
- Database information, including connection information, and all tables and text memo files used in the report definition
- Image files used in the report definition
- All fields used in the report definition
- Filter, if any
- Sort/group fields
- Any conditional line printing settings
Report definition specifications are especially useful when you call Progress Software Technical Support. The Technical Support representative can use the specifications to help you solve a Report Builder problem.
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