The Report entity
The Report entity defines and describes a Report. A Report is a document with formatted data that results from a query. A Report must be called into a Program.
The Report entity describes the layout of the Report and specifies the general characteristics for the Report printing.
To create a Report, you must complete the following tasks:
- Define a Report.
- Define the edition characteristics of the Report.
- Define the printing composition (the categories).
- Create a layout. Enter the labels and target Data Elements to create the categories, indicate the source of these Data Elements and the conditions under which the source is to be transferred to its target.
A Report cannot be generated by itself. It must be called into the -CD Lines of a Program. A Report can be defined once and used in several Programs. Upon the generation of the Program instance, the called Report is recognized and the code necessary to manage the Report is placed into the generated code of the Program.