Adding Reports to a Report Group 

Prerequisites

You have reached step 5 of the procedure creating a report group or you want to add an additional report to a report group. On the Create Report Group screen you have already chosen Goto ® Reports and are on the screen Create Report Group: Reports.

Procedure

  1. In the Report field, enter the name of the report that you want to add to the report group. You can enter more than one report.

The Report Writer processes the reports in the same order that you list them. To optimize processing time, the reports that you include in a report group should have the same characteristics and use the same data.

  1. To save the report group, choose Report group ® Save.

You can use the following additional processing functions on the Create Report Group: Reports screen:

Function

Choose

Add additional reports to report group

Edit ® New entries

Insert report between two other reports

Edit ® Insert row

Delete report from report group

Edit ® Delete row

Enter header information for the report group

Goto ® Header

Enter text for the selection screens

Goto ® Texts

Define report group documentation. See Defining Report Documentation

Goto ® Documentation

Display where a report defined for the report group is used

Extras ® Report usage...

Change definition of report assigned to report group

Extras ® Report definition

For utilities, see Report Writer Utilities

Utilities

Result

You have added a report to a report group and can now continue with step 6 of the procedure for creating a report group.