Print Rulers

All the rulers developed so far have been intended for Online Report Viewing. When you exited these rulers, you defined them as View rulers. Additionally, rulers can be defined as Print rulers.

Print rulers are rulers that reformat a report for printing. You can eliminate unnecessary fields from a 132-column report in order to reduce its width to 80 columns (or less) for printing on an 80-column remote printer by using a Print ruler.

Print rulers may be designed "from scratch" or they may be modified or unmodified copies of existing Print or View rulers.

Follow these steps to save one of the existing View rulers as a Print ruler.

1. Press the END key (PF03/PF15) to exit to the Active User Report list.
2. Type V (View) in OPTION field of the Employees-Marketing report and press Enter.
3. Press the QUICKVIEW key (PF04/PF16) to display the Report Editing screen.
4. Request Option 1 for ruler INSUR1 (as shown in the figure below) and press Enter to display the Edit Report Lines and Columns screen for ruler INSUR1.

   Figure 110 Report Editing Screen with Ruler INSUR1 before Editing

   ------------------------  CONTROL-D - REPORT EDITING  --------------------(U.E)

   COMMAND/OPT ===>1

   USER DEMO          REPORT EMPLOYEES-MARKETING         JOB JDEMO

     

     

      RULER NAME  ===> INSUR1               Name or blank for default ruler

      RULER TYPE  ===> VIEW                 View or Print

      REPORT NAME ===>                      To copy a ruler - full report name

      JOB NAME    ===>                      To copy a ruler - full job name

      USER NAME   ===>                      To copy a ruler - full user name

     

     

      1   EDIT    report lines and columns

     

      2   INCLUDE lines based on strings

     

      3   EXCLUDE lines based on strings

     

      4   COLOR   lines based on strings

     

     

     

     

   PLEASE SELECT OPTION, OR PRESS PF3 TO SAVE/EXIT THE RULER              16.46.36