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On this panel you arrange the appearance of the report and how it will look when printed. For this purpose, you have nine lines at your disposal. You define the headlines and other overall information on the first eight lines. On line nine you define which columns that will be included, and how they should be presented.
Layout area
The upper part of the panel displays how the information entered in the layout edit area will appear on the printout.
Layout edit area
The lower part of the panel is used for entering text and code. When you then click OK to update, the layout area is updated accordingly. Plain text will appear as it was written, while codes will be transformed into character strings showing the maximum length of the final text. Correct the position of the entered information, if there seems to be any overlapping. You cannot view all lines on the upper part at the same time, but you can scroll to view more. Each line consists of 378 positions, but you must keep the entered information within your printout width, or else parts of your report will not be printed.
The codes to use can be found in the Layout code text table. They are either constants, such as the company name, or variables, such as period number. To be recognised as codes by the system, and not as plain text, all codes to use on the first eight lines are preceded by the symbol &. The symbol’s position, when entered on the panel, indicates the starting position for the value of the variables or constant.
On the data line, line nine, you decide which columns that will be printed and where they should be positioned on the list. Columns are entered in the format XX&, where XX is the column number. As in the headlines, the position is also indicated by the symbol &. Here, however, it indicates the ending position of the printed value instead of the starting position because text, as in the heading, will be left justified, whereas numbers, as on the data line, will be adjusted to the right. An exception on line nine is &NO, meaning key field number, which is only used for report type 1. The other exception is &TX, meaning key field text if it concerns a report of type 1, and line text, if it concerns a report of type 2. The symbol & then indicates where on the line the text begins.
Note: When printing or viewing reports of type 1, the description of the statistical keys is displayed in the user language, if a translation exists.
Function keys
| Include | Include the report layout from an existing report into this report. |
- Report
- Displays the name and description of the report to maintain.
Work with report layout, Include function – Included values (RWRD1202)
On this panel you can copy rows and layouts of the report that you selected on the previous panel into the report you are creating.
Function keys
- Report
- Displays the name and description of the report that is being maintained.
- Include report
- Displays the name and description of the report from which layout will be included.
Copy target
On the upper part of the panel, the layout of the report you are creating is displayed.
- Row
- This column lists the available rows.
- Current report
- This section displays the layout of the report you are working on.
Copy source
On the lower part of the panel you can see the layout of the report you have selected to include values from.
- Copy to row
- You can transfer the information from each one of the nine lines by entering a number next to it and then clicking OK. If you enter 0, the information will be placed on the line with the same line number in the new report. The numbers 1 – 9 will position the information on the corresponding line in the new report.
- Columns XX
- The columns denote where the information should be positioned on the list.