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Defining Report Designs

There are two steps involved in defining a report with CA 2E.

• Specification of the individual report design: a default report design is provided automatically for each print function such as each PRTOBJ or PRTFIL, 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 done explicitly, by connecting the functions together and specifying the parameters to pass between the functions.

You can modify default report layout at both the format and field level. Each of these steps is identified as follows.

You can 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

You can modify the device design at the field level to:

• Rearrange the order of fields
• Drop fields or field text
• Add extra fields or text
• Modify field text

When adding extra fields you can specify totaling between formats.