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Creating a Report Using the Report Generator
Creating a Report Generator Report - Specifying the Primary Register
Creating a Report Generator Report - The Appearance of the Report
   - Adding a Report Title
   - Adding Column Headings
   - Adding Fields to the Report
Creating a Report Generator Report - Choosing a Print Destination
Creating a Report Generator Report - The Width of the Report Window
Creating a Report Generator Report - Printing the Report
Creating a Report Generator Report - Adding White Space
Creating a Report Generator Report - Adding Searches
Creating a Report Generator Report - Adding a Secondary Register
Creating a Report Generator Report - Using Variables and Formulae
Creating a Report Generator Report - Printing Information from Matrices
Creating a Report Generator Report - Bringing Information in from Other Registers
Creating a Report Generator Report - Page Breaks
Creating a Report Generator Report - Filtering Records (Print If)
Creating a Report Generator Report - Adding Check Boxes to the Specification Window
Creating a Report Generator Report - Adding Radio Buttons to the Specification Window
Creating a Report Generator Report - Searching for Records within a Period
Creating a Report Generator Report - Break Points, Subtotals and Totals
Creating a Report Generator Report - Blocks
Creating a Report Generator Report - Syntax
Creating a Report Generator Report - Useful Functions
Example Reports - Listing Sales Figures
Creating a Report Generator Report - Common Error Messages

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Creating a Report Generator Report - Using Variables and Formulae - Testing

As always, it is a good idea to test each step in the design of a Report Generator report, so that you can catch errors early. On this page, we will test the variables and formulae that we added to the example Customer List report here. The illustration below shows these variables and formulae in their positions on the 'Layout' card:

The Report Footer section contains two formulae:
  • one joining the text "No. of Customers: " and the viCustCount integer variable (converted to a string); and

  • one joining the text "Total for the Report: " and the vdInvTotal decimal variable (converted to a string).
The Invoice Footer section contains one formula joining the text "No. of Invoices: " and the viInvCount integer variable, and one that will print the vsCustText string variable.

This is the resulting report:

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