Modifying Device Designs › Editing Report Designs

Editing Report Designs

CA 2E provides a default device design for printed reports. However, you can modify the device designs to suit your specific needs. The following topics provide you with information on how to modify the report structure and formats.

CA 2E provides you with two distinct steps in defining a report. They are:

• Specification of the individual report design. A default report design is provided automatically for each print function, such as each PRTOBJ or PRTFIL function that you define. You can then modify the design.
• Inclusion of the individual report designs within an overall device structure. You specify how this is to be done by explicitly connecting the functions together and specifying the parameters to pass between the functions.

You can modify the device design at the format and field level:

• Modify the device design at the format level to
  • Suppress (by either dropping or hiding) formats
  • Modify the spacing between formats
  • Specify whether the format is to be reprinted on overflow
  • Modify the format indentation
• Modify the device design at the field level to:
  • Rearrange the order of fields
  • Drop fields or field text
  • Add extra fields and or text
  • Modify field text

Note: You cannot override the output field length.