VENDIG SOFTWARE SERVICES, INC

REPORT WRITER CAPABILITIES

purpose:

• provide the additional security of allowing you to specify which files each user may access in the report writer
• provide the ability to save your report criterion so that you can access those selections again when you want to run a similar report without having to re-enter the selections.
• capabilities have also been added to email the resulting report or to create/download an excel version of the report.

initial setup:

The installation menu (im/13) has a new selection that allows you to specify for this user which files he may access. In any case where this is not filled out for a given user, then that user has access to all files.

Displaying the available files or Saved reports in the UR (user reports) menu:

Once the user types UR he has a choice of displaying a list of the files available to him or a list of his saved-reports:

the following is a list of this user's saved-reports:

once a report is selected, the report writer is displayed as usual but with all fields already filled in with the information previously saved in this report