Chapter 7 Managing a List Report

Creating a List Report Using the List Report Wizard

The List Report Wizard is a quick start designed to help you create a list report for a given object type.

You can launch the List Report Wizard from:

The Report menu
The List of List Reports using the List Report Wizard tool in the toolbar.

The List Report Wizard guides you through the following steps:

Select the object type on which the list report will be based, the model or package used to list object, and choose whether you want to include shortcuts and sub-packages.
Choose object's properties that will appear as column headings in the list report and the order in which they will appear.
Choose object's properties and specify filter expressions by which to filter the list report, and choose whether the value of the property is used to sort objects in the list report.
Preview the list report content according to your selections.
Modify the default name and code of the list report and select a generation output.

You can click the Finish button at the first step of the wizard right after you have selected an object type. In this case, the list report will contain the Name and Code columns by default.

To create a list report using the List Report Wizard:

Select Report→List Report Wizard.

or

Select Report→List Reports and click the List Report Wizard tool in the toolbar.

Define or select the required options, and click Next in each page of the wizard.

Click Finish.

The different actions of the wizard are detailed in the following sections.