Report Designer Installation & Quick Start Guide
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1. UNC Report Path RSembach MiracleD BSPeparts Select reps file name associated to the Report Bales Invoice reps Click OK Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 12 Miracle Service Report Designer v7 1 f Report Help treat New Group reves Desen kts 2 Standard Reports Custom Sales Order dz Standard Sales Order Report i Custom 50 Report Standard Sales Quote Report Special Report H Sales Invoice Standard i Sales Order Standard Name i New Report Period Billing Invoice Standard Office Sales Order De inin Sample Mew Report Service Billing Invoice Standard Custom Sales Quote HepxFile Sales nvoice repx LJ Consolidated Billing Invoice Standard i Custom 50 Report Behavior i Text Sales Invoice Standard i Dfffice Quote Categor Form Purchase Order Standard Our Reports Type sales Invoice H Sales Order Standard Equipment List Sales Order Standard Invoices Sales Invoice Standard gt voice New Report a Appearance RepxFile The name of the reps file associated The report file is now linked to the New Report reference in the Custom Layout pane From here you can select the New Report and click Design to open the Report Designer Editing Tool Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 13 Modify Existing Reports Modifying reports gives yo2. gy xrPageInfo1 Figure 8 The Report Explorer displays a created report s structure as a tree Report elements in the tree are displayed in a vertical order which corresponds to their vertical position in a report When you choose an element in the Report Explorer tree the selected report element receives focus so you can edit this element and its properties Usually a standard report consists of several report bands containing report controls All child nodes in the tree view of the Report Explorer window are contained in their corresponding parent nodes As the Report Explorer shows the report s structure note that there are special rules for report building The image below illustrates these relations Container control Contained controls Figure 9 Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 19 The Report Explorer supports dragging and dropping of its elements between different nodes This means that items representing report controls can be dragged and dropped onto band items or onto control items The corresponding report control will then be moved Report Explorer 5 25 XtraReporti 57 topMargiiandi El detailBand1 A Figure 10 Additionally any item in the Report Explorer can be right clicked to invoke the context menu for this report element the same as in the Report Designer Use this menu to quickly perform commonly used functions for the report element An example
3. Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 8 Group Select the Group in which you would like the report listed This is only used to organize the reports and files in the Report Designer and does not relate to how they are used in Miracle Service The Group selection has no affect on how the report will function in Miracle Service ES New Template lt Type the name here gt Description Type the description here gt Group Custom Sales Order Custom Sales Order Categor Custom Sales Quote Our Reports Type Invaices Category the category defines where the report will be listed in Miracle Service If the report is an invoice sales order purchase order picking slip quote or part label of any kink the category must be set to Form The other categories relate to the where the report will be listed in the Miracle Service Report groups DR M ame T ppe the name here gt GR New Template Description T ppe the description here gt Group Custom Sales Order v Category Customers Customers Sales Orders and Inv Suppliers Purchase Orders Inventory Service Miscellaneous Form Type Type If the Category is defined as Form then you will need to select the Type of form the report will be listed in If the Category is anything other than Form then the Type can only be Report Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp
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5. Quick Start Guide 9 New Template M ame lt T ppe the name here gt Description T ppe the description here gt Group Custom Sales Order v Category Customers Type Preventative Maintenance w Preventative Maintenance Purchase Order Report Sales Invoice Sales Order E Sales Quote Service Contract Service Invoice Category and type work together to determine where the document will be used and listed in Miracle Service If the Type is Report then Category cannot be Form Similarly if Category is Form then Type cannot be Report These are mutually exclusive Your completed New Template should look something like the following New Template m EI Mame New Report Description Sample New Report Group Invaices Category Form BERSANI Click OK to close this window You list should now be displayed in the Group you selected See image below Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 10 5 ES Miracle Service Report Designer v2 1 f Report Help New Template Mew Group Preview Design Delete E Standard Reports Standard Sales Order Report Standard Sales Quote Report Sales Invoice Standard Period Billing Invoice Standard Service Billing Invoice Standard Consolidated Billing Invoice Standard Text Sales Invoice Standard Purchase Order Sta
6. Service Invoice Work Order Part Label Consolidated Service Billing Invoice Standard Test Sales Invoice Text Sales Order Text Sales Quote The Report Template Manager is used to create new report templates manage the names and location of the report used in Miracle Service New Group Use the New Group to create a group in the Custom Layouts area This is helpful to help categorize and organize your documents in the Report Template Manager This layout does not affect or relate to the location of the documents in Miracle Service It is just used within the Report Template Manager New Template Use the New Template to create a place holder for a new report you are creating The New Template button does not create an actual document and is only used to create a place holder to link to an existing document This would be used if you have made a copy of a report file on your server and now want to link that file into the Report Template Manager so you can further modify the document and link it into Miracle Service Preview Select Preview to view an existing document This will display the document without any data as shown in the following example Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 6 Preview Ag E3 Ele We Baked RN f j mS Mal amp Ali lak INVOICE Page 1 of 1 Bill To Zoom Factor 100 Figure 2 Design Select Design to open a document i
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8. Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide Last revised April 4 201 1 Copyright 2010 Nexent Innovations Inc All rights reserved Miracle Service and Nexent Innovations and its related marks images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Nexent Innovations Inc All other brands product names company names trademarks and service marks are the properties of their respective owners This document is provided as is and Nexent Innovations Inc Nexent assumes no responsibility for any typographical technical or other inaccuracies in this document Nexent reserves the right to periodically change information that is contained in this document however Nexent makes no commitment to provide any such changes updates enhancements or other additions to this document to you in a timely manner or at all NEXENT MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS WARRANTIES CONDITIONS OR COVENANTS EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE NON INFRINGEMENT MERCHANTABILITY DURABILITY TITLE OR RELATED TO THE PERFORMANCE OR NON PERFORMANCE OF ANY SOFTWARE REFERENCED HEREIN OR PERFORMANCE OF ANY SERVICES REFERENCED HEREIN IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION NEITHER NEXENT NOR ITS AFFILIATED COMPANIES AND THEIR RESPECTIVE DIR
9. ar allows you to easily perform formatting of controls text font size style color and alignment and zoom in or out of a report Note that with Reports Toolbar you can customize multiple controls at a time to select multiple controls press SHIFT and select them with a mouse 100 amp Times New Roman 975 BIUIAZ Group and Sort Figure 5 This topic gives you a brief overview of the Group and Sort panel and its main features The Group and Sort panel makes it easier to apply grouping and sorting to your report With this panel you don t need to manually add Group Header and Footer bands invoke their Group Fields editor create grouping fields and define their properties The Group and Sort panel does this automatically when you add a new grouping or sorting level Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 16 GroupHeader TT E CategoryID EG roupHeader2 ProductName n Detail Group and Sort E cj Add a Group V Adda Sort X Delete i Move Up Move Down Field Name Sort Order Show Header Show Footer CategoryID Ascending Siri mm a EN EH B Products gt im CategoryID Sr Discontinued E fus ProductID ab ProductMame M SE QuantityPerUnit Figure 6 The Group and Sort panel is inactive unless your report isn t bound to a data source After you ve bound your report to data you ca
10. he Property Grid To do this simply point the mouse to the report you want to copy and then click and hold the left mouse button While holding the left mouse button drag the report to the Custom Layouts pane and release the mouse button once you hover the item over the group where you would like to add the report From this point it is possible to modify the Property Grid so the document information is representative of the report you are creating From here you can select Design to modify the actual report Link New Reports From time to time new reports will be made available for Miracle Service To link a report to the Report Designer Custom Layout view and to Miracle Service you can do the following 1 First copy the report file to your Reports folder All compatible files must have a file extension of repx 2 If you want the new custom report in a new grouping in the Report Designer you can first create a new Group If not you can add the report to an existing Group 3 To add the report click New Template button 4 The New Template Window will display Enter the details in to the New Template Window The following describes the purpose of each field entry New Template Descriptor Group Category Type Name Enter the Name of the Report to display in the Report Writer Description Enter the report description This is used in Miracle Service in the Default Report listing Miracle Service Report
11. he bottom of the page in the ADMINISTRATION GUIDE amp USER MANUAL Section and select the Report Designer Manual to download The Report Designer and its associated functionality will evolve and expand over time While the Report designer can be used to create many reports it is primarily used to modify the existing reports that have are available The documents reports currently available are Document Type 1 DocumentNam mtPOrepx o 0 0 rptPO repx Prerequisite 1 Miracle Service 5 3 0 0 or later must be installed on the computer before the Report Designer is installed 2 Microsoft NET Framework 3 5 SP1 or later is installed Report Designer Installation Download the Installation File If you received a CD DVD as part of your installation kit you can install directly from the CD If you are downloading the installation file they can be obtained from our web site at http www miracleservice com index php customer center downloads When you extract the files they will be extracted to the following folder on your computer C ReportDesignervx_x where the x_x is the version number of the current version Navigate to the correct extracted folder and run the setup exe file Double click setup exe Click Close Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 4 Report Designer Overview Launch the Report Designer from your Start button Select START Al
12. he image below Simply choose the item you need from the list and the selected control bound to the appropriate data field will be created and added to the report ail 10 nwindDataset 1 25 Categories fs CategoryID fina Icon_17 m Picture i 3 Parameters Label a RichText CheckBox ini BarCode 4 ZipCode Figure 16 Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 22 It is possible to customize the look of Field List items For this purpose the bound datasource should implement the DataDictionary interface Then the customized Field List will have a custom appearance as shown in the image below Field List EH B nwindDataset E EH Categories E Chi CategoriesProducts CategoryID A Discontinued ProductID sb ProductName EE QuantityPerUnit E ReorderLevel 112 UnitPrice fa UnitsInStock E UnitsOnOrder a CategoryID j sh CategoryMame aa Icon 17 Sm Icon 25 rei Picture EEE Products 2 Parameters Troubleshooting Field List 2 Northwind Traders EE Categories Chess Categories Products 1b Discontinued sk Product Name 5 Quantity Per Unit Mr Reorder Level E Unit Price 8 Units In Stock Units On Order m Category Name sh Description fing Icon 17 Em Icon 25 NU Picture F2 Parameters Figure 17 For other errors and troubleshooting please check the on line knowledgebase at htip www miracle
13. l Programs Miracle Service Report Designer This will launch the Report Template Manager window of the Miracle Service Report Designer as shown below Miracle Service Report Designer v2 1 BHA Rent He Now Template New Preview Design Dete E Standard Reports E Custom Sales Order A Standard Sales Order Report Custom 50 Report Standard Sales Quote Report B Custom Sales Quote Sales Invoice Standard Custom SO Report Period Billing Invoice Standard Our Reports Service Billing Invoice Standard Consolidated Billing Invoice Standard Text Sales Invoice Standard Purchase Order Standard Type Sales Order Sales Order Standard Sales Order Standard O Appearance Mame Custom 50 Report Description Custom 50 Report RepxFile Custom SO_repx O Behavior Category Form Hame The Report Name Figure 1 The Report Template Manager window is used to manage and organize your various custom reports and documents It is also an import tool to use to link the documents to Miracle Service Standard Layouts Standard Layouts is a listing of the standard documents created for Miracle Service These documents cannot be modified but can be used to create new documents by dragging and dropping a report from the Standard Layout pane to the Custom Layouts pane Custom Layouts This is a listing of the custom reports used by Miracle Service Property Grid Displays the properties of a report selected in the Custom La
14. n the actual Report Designer tool See Modify Existing Reports section below Delete Use Delete to delete a document from the Report Template Manager This will remove the document from the Report Template Manager and also the link in Miracle Service however the actual report file repx file will not be deleted This deletion just removes the link If you do not want to retain the actual report document it must be deleted from the Reports folder separately using Windows Explorer This was designed to protect the actual document from being accidently deleted and losing considerable work Create New Groups Groups are used to organize the documents with the Report Designer Template Manager only The Group feature does not affect how the report functions in Miracle Service or where they can appear in Miracle Service The Type and Category are the only setting that will determine how and where reports will work in Miracle Service To create a new Group click the New Group button The following Window will display Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 7 Enter the Report Group Description Es Enter the Group name in the window and Click OK Create New Reports The recommended method for creating a new report is to drag and drop a report from the Standard Layouts to the Custom Layouts window This action will create a copy of the file in the Reports folder and setup the default properties in t
15. n use the Add a Group and Add a Sort buttons to choose new grouping and sorting criteria You can adjust the precedence of these criteria using the Move Up and Move Down buttons Then you can specify the sorting order for each level ascending or descending and choose whether the corresponding Group Header and Footer bands should be displayed Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 17 Toolbox Bar The Toolbox contains the list of available controls from where they can be added to a report E S9 Es La 3 o ma da x Figure 7 This Toolbar can also arrange its items in a horizontal layout Report Explorer This topic gives you a brief overview of the Report Explorer tool and its main features Report Explorer is a helpful tool which provides easy navigation through report elements You can use it when building a report to quickly access all the elements of a report and their properties and to see the whole report s structure The Report Explorer can be moved sized or docked in the same manner as other windows and usually has the following look Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 18 xtraReporti 15 TopMargin GroupHeader 1 LBS wrPictureBoxi 21 1 Detail ete winControlContainer 1 monthCalendar 1 EHEJ xrPaneli e xrPageBreak1 xrSubreporti eg DetailReport i EE Detaili amp Li BottomMargin i
16. ndard Sales Order Standard Sales Order Standard Define Property Grid Fields E Custom Sales Order i Custom 50 Report Special Report Sales Order Standard Office Sales Order E Custom Sales Quote Custom 50 Report Office Quote E Our Reports Equipment List 3 Invoices Sales Invoice Standard Invoice Mew Report point to make any changes you feel are necessary Define repx file Property Grid 2 x E Appearance Mame Description RepxFile DO Behavior Category Type Name The Report Name New Report Sample New Report Form Sales Invoice The Property Grid Fields will display the fields enter in the New Template form These can be edited at this Most of the Property Grid will probably be fine since it was just defined you now need to link the Custom Layout reference directly to a file in your Reports folder When you click on the RepxFile field you will see an ellipse appear EE Miracle Service Report Designer v2 1 f Report Help New Template Mew Group Preview Design Delete E Standard Reports Standard Sales Order Report Standard Sales Quote Report Sales Invoice Standard Period Billing Invoice Standard Service Billing Invoice Standard Consolidated Billing Invoice Standard Text Sales Invoice Standard Purchase Order Standard Sales Order Standard Sales Order Standard Custom Layouts 2 x Custom Sales Order Custom SO Rep
17. o 99 tbICustomersShipTo ZipCode B SALESPERSON SHIPPED VIA Invoice Line Items Item Number Description Serial Number Gty Unit of Ordered Shipped Measure Unit Price rellnvoice rellnvoice strDescrigi rellnvoice relinvojd relinvoic relinvoic rellnvoli B rellnvoice dbiprid rellnvoice LineAmBl E Le EE view Format i D q D d UNUUECbU f Report Explorer _ E im topMarginBand1 ReportHeader GroupHeader1 GHE Detail DetailReport DetailReport1 DetailReport2 HHE DetailReport3 GHE DetailReport4 e ReportFooter1 t bottomMarginBandi 25 Report EN us Appearance Background Colo C Transparent Border Color ControlText Border Width 1 Borders None Font Times Mew Roman Foreground Colo MI ControlText Formatting Rule Collection Formatting Rules Collection Padding 0 0 0 0 Gj Add a Group VA Adda Sort XX Delete Move Up Move Down Field Name Sort Order Show Header Show Footer strInvoiceNumber Ascending w grouping or sorting level First provide gy Group and Sort e Scripts Errors Page Color C white Style Sheet Collection Style Sheet s Pat Text Alignment Top Left Sk Watermark None Ome E Support Micr 23 Reminders Tool Bar my Report Design Miracle Service Figure 4 Report Designer lt e 12 48 PM The Toolb
18. of this menu is shown in the image below 5 2 XtraReporti EH tepMarginBand1 E xrLabel2 E detailBand1 PA wrlabell xrlabel3 gl xrChart1 8 PageFooh LI Align To Grid View Code Bring To Front Send To Back Paste X Delete Insert Band Insert Detail Report Zoom j Properties a Figure 11 If there are any data bound controls in a report they will be marked in the Report Explorer with the yellow database icon as shown in the image below Note that when a mouse pointer hovers over a bound item a tooltip displaying the binding information is shown Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 20 Report Explorer c amp XtraReporti EL topMarginBand1 LA wrLabel2 A xrLabel3 h EN Ep xrPictureBox1 Text CategoryName B PageFooter Li bottomMarginBand 1 Figure 12 Field Lists This topic describes the Field List window and its main features The Field List is intended to display the schema of the datasource which is currently bound to a report Also this window may be used to bind existing report controls to data or to create new bound report controls To learn more about other report designer elements refer to the Report Designer document The Field List is shown when you edit a report at design time It can be moved sized or docked and usually has the following look nwindDataset EMEB Products us Ca
19. ort Special Report Sales Order Standard Office Sales Order Custom Sales Quote Custom SQ Report Office Quote Our Reports Equipment List E Invoices Sales Invoice Standard Invoice Mew Report es M El Appearance Mame Description RepxFile E Behavior Category Type HepxFile New Report Sample New Report file repxl Gl Form Sales Invoice The name of the reps file associated Click on the ellipse and browse to your Reports folder and select the file you would like linked to the Custom Layout reference you created New Report in this example Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 11 Path of the repx file UNC Report Path RSembach MiracleD ESA eparts Select reps file name associated to the Report wem a Click the ellipse on the Path of the repx file window or type in the file name if known When you click the ellipse a browse window will open Select the file to link It is Sales_Invoice repx in this example Sales Invoice reps Mexenk Sales Ouotev2 repx Recent aa rpEInvaice repx Documents rptInvoice_PB repx rptinvoice SB repx rptInvoice Consolidated SB repx rptPO repx rpESo repx rpESG repx rptSrvCallsTaskTicket repx rptTextInyvoice repx t EL EL EL EL EE EL Computer ea a File name Sales Irvaice reps v Network Files of type traRepart files rep Click Open Path of the repx file
20. section is edited via the In Place editor Represents the toolbar for positioning report elements similar to the Layout Toolbar in the Visual Studio IDE and contains buttons which provide the ability to change the size and location of groups of controls Provides means for zooming in and out of your report both in design and preview modes Shows components non visual report helpers related to report data binding You can click them to display and edit their settings using the Property Grid Panel Provides tips and specific information about the Designer element being hovered by a cursor or an action being currently performed by an end user Allows end users to add controls to a report by dragging and dropping their icons onto a report s area Note that you can also add custom controls to this toolbox Allows you to quickly perform grouping and sorting operations throughout a report and visually represents the report s grouping structure Represents the visual tree of a report It shows a report s structure in a tree form and makes navigation through the report easy Shows the structure of a report s data source and is used to bind report controls to data Represents the Property Grid in the Designer used to access and modify properties of a report and its elements bands and controls Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 14 iN riale sie Main Menu RE ile Edit View Format Layou
21. service com kb Where to Find More Information The complete Report Designer Manual which has more detailed instructions on the features and its use and can be downloaded here http www miracleservice com index php customer center downloads Go to the bottom of the page in the ADMINISTRATION GUIDE amp USER MANUAL Section and select the Report Designer Manual to download Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 23
22. t Toolbar i EHE xtraReportii Ls B PageHeader band per page GroupHeader 1 GroupHeader dE Detail v E Detail Introducing the End User Report Designer CHO MyDataSet o NE Hei vist pane Toolbox Panel xtraReportll Report a MyDataSet 1 ProductsTableAdapter Component Tray Property Grid Panel Status Bar Figure 3 Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 15 Report Designer v B B Reporti eader0 one band per report 2 Your Company Name tblPreferences Slogan tblPreferences Company tblPreferences Street 5 tblPreferences City State Zip Phone tbIPreferences Phone Number Bill To tblCustomerBillTo CompanyName G tbICustomerBillTo Address1 tblCustomerBillTo Address2 g tblICustome 3 tbICustomerBillTo Stat tblCustomerBillTo ZipCode a v GroupHeaderl MEIS PA gt lt gt v E Detail i v DetailReport tbllnvoice rellnvoice v E Detail E DetailReport tblinvoiceLineltemDiscount Bm INVOICE DATE CUST ORDER PAYMENT TERMS SHPREDVA dtmDate strCustomerPO Ww strSalesman strShippedia E Sales Invoice INVOICE strinvoiceNumber Page 1 of 1 Ship To tblCustomersShipTo CompanyNam tblCustomersShipTo Address1 tblCustomersShipTo Address2 B tbICustomel tblCustomersShipT
23. tegoryID Sy Discontinued z ab EAN 13 fes ProductID EE ProductName sh QuantityPerUnit En ReorderLevel E Supplier ID LATT UnitPrice 53 UnitsInStock Faal UnitsOnOrder Fi Parameters Figure 13 After binding a report to data the Field List window will show the structure of the primary data source a primary data source is the object set by the DataSource property Then the Field list can be used for two purposes adding new bound controls or binding existing controls e To bind an existing report control control click the desired field item in the Field List window and then drag and drop it onto the bindable report control This control will then be bound to the selected data field Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 21 A Categories ac CategoryID CategoryName Icon_17 Icon_25 Picture Parameters Figure 14 e To add anew bound report control simply click the desired field item in the Field List window and then drag and drop it onto the report band Then a control bound to the selected data field will appear Si a Lia neindoataSet Categories E i Tes CategoryID 101 Icon 17 zm 101 Icon 25 T Parameters Figure 15 e Another way of creating new bound report controls is to right click a Field List item and then drag and drop it onto a report This will invoke the context menu shown in t
24. u the complete control over the look of any report in Miracle Service and the information that is presented on the report The following is an overview of the control elements available within the Report Designer Figure 3 illustrates the location of these various controls in the Report Designer interface Element Design Panel Main Menu Main Toolbar Formatting Toolbar Layout Toolbar Zoom Toolbar Component Tray Status Bar Toolbox Group and Sort Panel Report Explorer Field List Property Grid Panel Description This main element of the Designer represents a panel used for reports creation and editing It displays report bands and controls allowing end users to rearrange them bind them to data and so on Also an end user can switch to either the Preview Scripts or HTML View tab to access scripts of a report or view its print or html output Contains a set of items and subitems which enable end users to perform common actions over the report currently shown in the Design Panel In general it duplicates all the toolbar buttons available on the Main Formatting and Layout toolbars Represents the main file management toolbar in the Designer It contains buttons that allow end users to create new reports save and load report layouts cut copy and paste controls and undo and redo actions in the Designer Contains buttons for text formatting Note that this toolbar can be also used when a control s text or a
25. youts pane The properties include Appearance Name The name of the report displayed in the Custom Layouts Pane Description The name of the report displayed in Miracle Service RepxFile The name of the file stored in your Reports folder Behavior Category Defines the category where the report will be displayed in Miracle Service If it is defined as a Form it will be available to be selected from the Default Report listing The Type below defines the dropdown where the report will be listed When other categories are selected the document is intended to be displayed in that category These categories are directly related to the existing report categories in Miracle Service and include the following Miracle Service Report Designer Installation amp Quick Start Guide 5 Customers Sales Orders and Inv Suppliers Purchase Orders Inventory Service Miscellaneous Form i 1 Type Defines if the report is a Report or the type is a Form for the report If it is defined as a Report it will be available to be selected from the Report Group set in the Category above If the report is define as a Form in the Category above the Type will define the type of form and ultimately which dropdown the report will be listed in the Default Report listing Pernod Billing Invoice Picking Slip Preventative Maintenance Purchase Order Report Sales Invoice Sales Order Sales Quote Service Contract
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