How to Create Reports

GenRe lets PC users create reports within minutes, reports that would otherwise take hours of computer programming. One to five GenRe files may be used for reports.

The following steps illustrate how reports are created:

1. Click the [Reports] button of the main menu:

2. The report manager screen is displayed. Click [Create] and check [One file]:

3. Select a file, say import1_20091005151839, enter the title and click [Continue]:

4. An image of the program that maintains the file is displayed. Click [Continue].

(At this point, there is option to view the records or use [Criteria] to specify the records to be included/excluded from the report.)

5. The image is displayed again. This time it shows field names instead of actual data, and a grid.  The labels and fields that are to be printed are clicked and highlighted. They are added to the grid. Then click [Continue].

(There is option to have up to 5 sort keys for the report. If no sort key is selected, records are printed in ascending record key (Extract Key).

6. Select the type of report. Check [Text report] and click [Continue].

7. The labels and fields to be printed are displayed again. Click [Continue]:

(There is option to add texts and formulas. You can sum up or compute columns into new (derived) columns of totals, rates or percentages.)

8. The layout screen is displayed. Click the [Layout] button located at the middle of the screen, to automatically create the layout.

(There is option to include 3 levels of totals and manually specify the layout.)

9. Click [Create]:

10. The report is created:

11. To view the new report, click [Print/View]:

12. Select a Microsoft program, say [Notepad]:

13. The report is displayed (and printed):

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