Using Cross-Report Indexes › Page Selection and Report Sections

Page Selection and Report Sections

A report index groups certain pages of a report with a particular index value. An example would be a report that includes telephone bills. Each telephone bill is several pages of a report. When you enter an account number, that account’s bill is listed. One account might be pages 10-15 and another account might be 27-31.

Cross-Report indexes are similar to report indexes except, a single index can used be in more than one report. If your value is found in two different reports, the resulting sections from each report are listed.

Both Report Indexes and Cross-Report Indexes have two parts:

• Index name

  The index name corresponds to the type of value you are searching for. The index might be for a telephone number, SSN, or some other type of information.

• Index value

  The actual value that you are searching for. In the case of a telephone number index you might search for 800-555-0199. Which pages of the report are matched with this index is determined by the administrator.

The index information entered for these values determines which pages of a report are displayed.

Note:

• Reports defined by cross-report indexing are dynamic; the information can change (if the reports change) each time you reconnect to the database.
• Sometimes indexes have multiple parts, so, you have to enter the index values for two to eight indexes at one time.