Reports to View

Use these guidelines when developing reports for end-user viewing.

Ensure that you:

• Base the level 1 section of the report on a business view that contains all columns in the table to enable data selection over any column from the table.

• Group a Level 1 section and all of its associated sections together.

• Locate these conditional sections at the bottom:

  • Conditional sections that are not called.

  • Conditional sections that are associated with more than one level 1 section.

• Use a group section for processing that does not produce printable output.

  You define those section properties as invisible and conditional.

• Use constants to place comments in sections that are invisible or that appear in conditional sections that are not called.

  These comments can appear in report viewing. A constant that contains the section name and description is a standard comment in these sections.

• The report variables in an invisible section are listed when you select the Report View tab.

  A section does not appear in the report output when the Visible option is turned off in the Section Properties.