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Using a Default Report Design

Make most of your application reports conform to a standard layout that is to have items like the report title, and origination information in the same place on all reports. Doing so not only makes them look better, but also makes the application systems easier to understand.

Toolkit allows you to set up a default report design that will be provided as a starting position on any new report design that you add.

You can specify one default report design for each report width for each member in the report design file. For example, you could name the default report design, #DFTRPTnnn, where nnn is the report width, for example, #DFTRPT132, #DFTRPT198.

An example of the Work with Report Design display is:

YWRKRPT REPORT(ALSTSTKVAL) FILE(YDSNRPT)

Report title details are entered through a fixed format display.

Selecting 1 from the report title details display giving the report design image. The image of the report is laid out using a free format display.

Selecting a 2 from the title details display gives the text display.

The explanatory narrative for the report design is also laid out using a free format display:

Pressing F03 from any display causes the exit display to be shown. The exit display allows you to make a controlled exit from the Work with Report Design program. The design is not updated to disk until this point