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Prototyping the Report

Prototyping is a convenient way to test a report format before actually coding, compiling, and testing the complete program that generates the report. CA Ideal generates random values for the primary group of the detail definition as sample data for the report. This is normally sufficient to check alignment, spacing, pagination, and edit patterns.

Only the primary group of the report definition is produced in the report prototype. In addition, each field produced for the report prototype contains, at most, 52 characters, regardless of the actual field length defined for the report.