General Tab<
 

From this tab, you can set the following:

 

Title

The title of the report, this can be displayed in the report page header.

Style

The style to apply to the report, this alters how various aspects of the report will be visually styled. This setting will override the setting in File > Preferences > Reports > Report Styles. The available Report Styles are Small (6pt Font), Reg (8pt Font), Large (10 pt Font, Preprinted Forms, No Indent, Shade and Underline, Standard, Underline Groups, and Depr Reports.

Date

Determines whether and where the current date should be displayed on the report.

Time

Determines whether and where the current time should be displayed on the report.

Page No.

Determines whether and where the page numbers should bedisplayed on the report.

Filter Selections in Report

Select to include the selected filters in a “Report Options” section at the end of the report.

Show Report Totals

Select to include a report totals line at the end of the report.

Group Headings on Each Page

Select to include group headers on each page.

Show Totals Only

Select to suppress the detail section of a report. When this option is selected, groups, totals, column headings, and format will still display.

On all reports that also have the Show report totals check box selected, a row will be added below the Report Totals line. It displays "Records included in total = ## (Where ## represents the total number of "detail" lines listed on the report).

Show Row Counts

When this check box is selected, a "Records included in total = ##" is added below each group total line. The total records line will only be displayed if the "Display Group Footer" check box is selected for that specific group (found on the Group & Sort tab).  Detail lines will be counted within groups and report totals, it does not count any groups within another group.

For example, if you have Account Type as Group 1, Account Category as Group 2 and Account as the detail the "Show row counts" works as follows:

Assets

Cash

Checking

Savings

Cash Totals

Records included in total = 2

Accounts Receivable

Accounts Receivable

Accounts Receivable Totals

Records included in total = 1

Assets Totals

Records included in total = 3

 

Drill Down

When a report supports drill-down into another report, this item will be available and will list any variations of the report normally used as the drill-down report.

Reports found in this list will come from Favorites, Database or Network report lists.

If the report does not support drill-down or doesn’t drill-down into a report, the Drill Down item will be disabled.

For example, if you view an Income Statement and drill-down into one of the figures on the report, by default the General Ledger report displays. If you decide to make changes to the default General Ledger report and add columns, etc. you can save your unique variation and name it General Ledger 2, then you can select General Ledger 2 in this box and by default have the Income Statement drill-down into your unique variation of the General Ledger report instead of the standard variation of the General Ledger report.

 

Note: Any filtering applied to a report that will be used for drill-down will be overwritten when that report is used as the target of a drill-down operation. This is to insure that the data appropriate to the main report is displayed in the drill-down report.

 

Note: Click on the Preview toolbar to view your modifications. If you do not save the report variation as a favorite before you close the Preview screen, a Do you want to save this report in your Favorites folder? message will display, click Yes, enter a name for the report variation in the Enter a name for the favorite box, and then click OK or click No to return to the Report screen without saving the report.