Operation Manual

Quick Start

Report Creation Wizards

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Each wizard guides you through the creation of a report by providing a series

of screens. Many of the wizards have screens unique to a specific type of

report. For example, the Mailing Labels Report Creation Wizard has a screen

that allows you to specify the type of mailing label you want to use.

Note: After you’ve clicked the Finish button in a Report Creation Wizard, you

can click the Stop button on the Navigation Tools toolbar if you don’t want the

program to gather all the data from your data source. This is useful if you want

to make adjustments to the report layout that the wizard created.

Standard

The Standard Report Creation Wizard is the most generic of the wizards. It

guides you through choosing a data source and linking database tables. It

also helps you add fields and specify the grouping, summarization (totals),

and sorting criteria you want to use. Finally, the Standard Report Creation

Wizard leads you through chart creation and record selection.

The Templates screen contains predefined layouts for you to apply to your

report to give it more impact.

Cross-Tab

The Cross-Tab Report Creation Wizard guides you through the creation of a

report in which your data is displayed as a cross-tab object. Two special screens

(Cross-Tab and Grid Style) help you create and format the cross-tab itself.

Mailing Label

The Mailing Labels Report Creation Wizard lets you create a report that is

formatted to print on any size mailing label. You can use the Label screen to

select a commercial label type, or you can define your own layout of rows and

columns for any multi-column style report.

OLAP

The OLAP Report Creation Wizard lets you create a report in which your

OLAP data is displayed as a grid object. Although similar to the Cross-Tab

Report Creation Wizard in several ways, the OLAP Report Creation Wizard

appears to be different due to the requirements of working with OLAP data

sources. You first specify the location of your OLAP data, and then you choose