Report Editing

There are two types of rulers in Control-D:

• VIEW rulers – Used for editing reports that are viewed.
• PRINT rulers – Used for editing reports to be printed.

In this exercise you specify the type of ruler while defining or modifying it.

1. From the Active User Report List screen, type V in the OPT field to the left of the EMPLOYEES REPORT-MARKETING and press Enter.

   The report is displayed and the cursor is positioned in the COMMAND field of the report.

2. Type EDIT and press Enter. The Report Editing screen is displayed.

   Figure 33 Report Editing Screen

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

   COMMAND/OPT ===>

   USER MKT           REPORT EMPLOYEES REPORT            JOB jobnamR1

     

     

     RULER NAME   ===>                      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            14.21.41

This screen is used to copy existing rulers from other reports or recipients by selecting one of the four editing options:

1. Edit report lines and columns
2. Include lines based on strings
3. Exclude lines based on strings
4. Color lines based on strings