Report Designer
These modules will help you effectively manage the flow of goods to satifsy customer demands at multiple operating locations. This suite lets you take control of your business - and profit from all your hard work.
The Online Advantage Report Designer is the creative tool that drives the Reporting Suite. Rapidly create flexible, functional and feature-rich reports with the Online graphical reporting tools. Track, manage and understand your business.
Online comes complete with over 800 standard reports across the five suites. Whilst these reports cover all the main requirements of the application, there is often a need for ad-hoc reporting. Many businesses need to analyse their data and present it in customised formats. Many businesses have a need to create one-off reports to cover “special” reporting requirements. With the Online Report Designer you have control over the size, content, and appearance of everything in a report.
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Features
- Simplicity — with our standard Report Wizard we will take you step by step through the process of writing a report without complicated questions so even a casual user can create reports with ease
- Useability - can be employed by users and developers alike to create new reports, base new reports on existing reports, or to simply customise existing standard Online Advantage reports
- Deployment – all our reporting tools can be deployed from a central web server to your browser based clients, run over any type of network connection including LAN, WAN and Internet, and employed by any user with the correct privileges
- Filters – Nominate “fixed” filters for the report that are always used and “runtime” filters that let the user select what data they require when they run the report
- Sorting – Have complete control over the sequence of the data with the ability to sort the report on any of the available data fields/columns
- Bookmarks – allows you to build a Table of Contents for navigating the report
- Drag and Drop – report design is performed by simply clicking on the item you want to put on the report, dragging it to where you want it, and then setting any additional properties as required
- WYSIWYG – view the format of the report as you create it with a our graphical report designer that is truly “What You See Is What You Get”
Functions
- Report Designing can be performed using the following “palette” of items:
- Labels
- Text
- Check Boxes
- Pictures
- Shapes
- Lines
- Rich Text Boxes
- Page Breaks
- Bar Codes
- Use normal windows text formatting including font type, font style, size, colour and effects
- Supports text alignments of left, right, centre and justify
- Offers text word wrap, automatic field expansion and truncation functions
- Fixed Images can be included on any report so logo’s and pictures can be embedded into any section of your reports
- Background images or watercolours can be added to reports or forms as required
Colour fill shapes for background colouring - Page Break control plus Report and Page Header and Footer sections
- Unlimited “Group” Headers and Footer sections
- All “sections” including the Detail section can grow or shrink automatically
- Dynamic Image inclusion allows you to put a placeholder on the report and have the image name to be shown come from your database so you can dynamically change the image to appear. Great way to vary logo’s, show special’s via flashy images, or to produce Price Catalogue from your business system.
- Selectable total styles like Sum, Average, Count, Minimum, Maximum, Variance, Standard Deviation
- Use Grand Totals, Page Totals, Group Totals and Page Counts
Benefits
- Delivers in-depth insight into your business operations with on-demand ad-hoc report creation
- Unlock the reservoir of data stored in your business system so you can take advantage of the lessons to be learnt from the statistics and trends sometimes hidden away in you raw transaction data
- Put the power of report generation into the hands of the people who need it without the need to purchase expensive additional software and training
- Save time and money in the report creation and customisation stages with a simple to use and time efficient report designer that can be deployed in seconds
