Understanding Report Properties

Report properties are accessed from the File menu in RDA. Report properties affect the entire report and include these tabs:

Properties Tab	Description
Report Properties	Enable you to select totaling, output, and performance options.
Font/Color	Enables you to modify fonts, font styles, font size, and font colors for the entire report.
Cover Page Options	Enable you to select the cover page option: select general and section options to include on the cover page.
Decimal Scaling	Enables you to apply decimal scaling to numeric fields. This option affects only tabular section reports.
Advanced	Enables you to select subsystem jobs, paper size, dynamic positioning, and transaction processing, and to override environments options.

When making report level changes, you must consider two scenarios:

• You design a new report template that has not yet been saved.

  You can make report level changes, save the report template for the first time, and quit RDA. If you allowed the system to create a batch version automatically, the batch version reflects the report level revisions.

• You modify an existing report template.

  Changes to properties at the report level are not reflected in existing versions of the report if the report template has already been saved and you have quit RDA prior to making the report level change. For example, you open an existing report and make report level changes. These report level changes are not reflected in existing versions. You must also make the modification at the version level or create a new batch version. Batch versions that are created after you revise the report level properties reflect the report level revisions.