Designing Parameters

Your report definition parameters collection must define a unique parameter entry for each parameter sent to the reporting tool. The sequence of your parameters must match the sequence defined in your reporting tool.

Continuing with the Tax Payables Analysis report as an example, let's look at the parameter definitions.

Parameter Code	Description	Char Type	Default Value
P_FROM_DT	From Date	CI_DATE	N/a
P_TO_DT	To Date	CI_DATE	N/a
P_CHAR_TYPE	Account Type Characteristic	CI_CHTYP	CI_GLTY
P_TAX_ACCTY_CHAR	Account Type Char Value for Tax Related GL Account	CI_GLTY	LT-Liability/taxes

Highlights for some of the above settings:

The from date and to date parameters use the same characteristic type.
The characteristic type parameter is defined with a default value pointing to the GL account type characteristic type.
The GL account type parameter defines the liability/taxes account type as its default value.

Note: User Id. The sample reports provided by the system pass the user id as the first parameter passed to the reporting tool. It does not need to be defined in the parameter collection for the report.