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- dSHAREWARE dBASE REPORTER
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- dShareware Reporter requires very little from the user beyond pointing
- at a desired action and hitting the ENTER key. It was designed this way
- from the start.
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- The user can choose a report definition he or she has created from
- the first screen. The report description is reviewed by moving the
- light bar to the desired report definition and hitting ENTER. Fields
- from the primary and secondary file, if one was used, are displayed
- along with the active query if one was created for use with the report.
- The report definition can then be run or deleted. Output can be sent
- to the printer, screen, or to a disk file. Report parameters and the
- query can be edited before running the report again.
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- CREATING A REPORT DEFINITION FOR THE FIRST TIME:
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- First, the report type is chosen and then report parameters are entered.
- You can control things like the left margin, spaces between printed fields
- on the report, page width, page length, etc. The only parameter that may
- be confusing to the new user is the subtotal parameter.
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- Say, for example,you have a file of customer purchases like ORDER.DBF.
- It is indexed on customer number and you are trying to total the purchases
- for each customer and want a a grand total of all purchases. If you choose
- the subtotal option on the report parameter screen dShareware Reporter will
- print and sum all of the purchases for customer 100, display a subtotal,
- space,and then begin printing and summing the purchases by customer 200 and
- so forth. Create a report with the subtotal option for ORDER.DBF. Total
- the QTY and SELL fields for practice. The subtotal option's use will
- then become clear.
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- You choose your primary from a scolling list. You choose the fields you
- wish to include in the report from a scrolling list. Nothing could be easier!
- Just remember the following:
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- 1. A MAXIUM OF 27 FIELDS FROM EACH FILE MAY BE USED IN THE REPORT.
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- 2. THREE CALCULATED FIELDS MAY BE DEFINED PER FILE.
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- 3. MEMO FIELD PROCESSING IS LIMITED TO ONE MEMO FIELD IN A SINGLE FILE
- REPORT.
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- 4. FIELDS APPEAR ON THE PRINTED REPORT IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY WERE
- SELECTED.
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- 5. IF YOU DO NOT ENTER A COLUMN HEADING FOR A FIELD THE FIELD NAME WILL
- BE USED AS A COLUMN HEADING ON THE REPORT.
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- 6. IF YOU ARE USING TOTALS, SUBTOTALS, AND/OR CALCULATED FIELDS EXPECT
- YOUR REPORT TO BE WIDER THAN THE WIDTH OF THE SELECTED FIELDS ALONE.
- EXTRA SPACE IS ALLOCATED TO A FIELD BEING TOTALLED AND TO A CALC FIELD
- BEYOND THAT WHICH IS DISPLAYED BY THE FIELD SELECTION SCREEN.
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