Adding Variables to Financial Reports to Display Date Titles

Open a financial report template in Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Report Design Aid (RDA).

1. Click the page header section in the report template and select Alpha Variable from the Insert menu.

2. Position the field in the page header.

3. Double-click the alpha variable field that you just inserted.

4. On the Variable Properties form, enter a name in the Variable Name field on the Description tab.

   Use a name that you can easily identify in Event Rules Design, such as Date Title.

5. Select the Display tab and set the Justification to Center.

6. Set the Display Length to 100.

   If the date title is over 100 characters, the system truncates the date title to fit the available space.

7. Select the Advanced tab, select the Global Variable option and click OK.

   Selecting this option makes the variable available in event rules for all sections of the report.

8. Align the object with the other objects in the section and save the report template.