This defaults to a system-generated Document name, which is an abbreviation of the standard Report Title.

For example If the standard report title is A/R Trial Balance, then the default document name is ArTrialBalance.

The default name can be changed. You can use up to 100 characters for the name. We suggest you use a name which is meaningful to you to assist you in subsequently identifying the report. Do not enter any extension. The extension .xml is automatically added.

This defaults to a system-generated Document directory. The first part is the path of your temporary directory ($t – temp folder), and the last part is the standard Report Code. This last part of the directory does not need to exist and is created by the wizard.

For example If the standard report code is ARSP30, then the default document directory is $tARSP30 (i.e. C:\Temp\ARSP30)

The default directory can be changed. You can use up to 255 characters to define the default directory.

It is important to ensure that the directory is unique for each report, to avoid possible conflict with other files.

The path must be accessible to the application server.

During report preview and report generation the Document Directory is used as a working area. The relevant files are created and saved in this directory, together with any graphics or images. The files are never removed from this save folder.

This option is selected by default.

An XSL document that contains the script coding is used to transform the XML document into an HTML page.

Deselect this option if you do not want your XML document to be transformed into HTML format suitable for viewing in a web browser.

You would typically deselect this option if you wanted to create an XML document without any XSL formatting applied (i.e. output raw XML). The raw XML document can be sent to another company for purposes of exchanging data.

The raw XML is displayed in the report maintenance preview. You can amend the column and the report element names.

Select this if you want to be able to drill down to the item values that were used in the calculation of the report subtotals and totals.

This option is not selected by default as it may significantly increase the time it takes to generate the report.

The amount of data to describe all the source transactions can potentially be enormous. For this reason, such data is best left within the SYSPRO database and not copied to your XML directory. The XML Report Viewer allows you to view any HTML page, just as you would use a normal web browser.

If you select, this option then, when you run the report, you can use the Click for Details option to zoom down to the summary details. The option is only available when printing Summary XML Reports.

The details are linked in separate XML files, which means that the main XML file is smaller. The separate XML files are Z000001.XML, Z000002.XML, etc., the XSL file is ZOOM.XSL and the CSS file is ZOOM.CSS.

To obtain Details for Summary Reports, the report Output must be defined as XML and the report option Summary report must be set to Yes (see - Options).

This option enables you to optionally include the Report Summary Meta Data in the header section of the main XML file. This is particularly useful to record the report history such as the Report Code, Report Name, Last Run Date, Last Run By and the Company Number.

This option is selected by default.

If you deselect this option, then all comments and blank (formatting) lines are omitted from the XML output. This results in smaller XML documents being generated.

If separate XML detail files are being used, the meta data is not written to the detail files. This information could be sensitive, and would therefore not be required when publishing.

A theme enables you to create professional reports by defining the visual appearance you require for the report.

Themes are constructed using the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) technology. A theme, therefore, is simply a collection of CSS elements. The contents of the CSS theme is displayed in a notepad and you can edit the elements as required.

You use this function to define the theme you require for your report.

The theme for the main report defines the style of the executed report. The main report theme is always displayed in the preview pane of the tri-pane window.

This function is only enabled if you selected the option: Add a visual theme.

This function is only enables if you selected the options: Drill down to details for summary report and Add a visual theme.

You use this function to specify the theme you require for the details displayed when you run the report and use the Click for Details option to zoom down to the summary details.

By default it is assumed that no visual theme is required so that your report is created with a plain default theme.

This style is stored in the standard list of CSS Style Sheets for Report Writer file (IMPRWS.IMP), as follows:

Theme name: Plain CSS filename: RWPLAIN JPG/GIF Files: N/A

The IMPRWS.IMP file is not modified. Additions and modifications are stored in a user defined file (USRRWS.IMP).

This option is selected by default which enables you to view the report immediately after it is run.

Any normal web browser can be used to view the XML report.

Select this if you want to be able to redefine the directory at the time of executing the report.

If you select this option then you are prompted for the folder to publish when the report is run.

This option enables you to specify how much of the page the document will use in the web browser.

You can define this as a percentage of the page or as a number of pixels. Whichever method you select, the browser does not truncate the text in a column but stretches the width of the column so that the longest piece of text fits. This means that neither the percentage nor the number of pixels can be used to fix the 'maximum' width of a column.

Select this to specify the page width in screen pixels for the browser width.

Only use this option, if you want to be specific to the nearest pixel.

The description for this field changes depending on your selection at the previous option.

If you selected to define the width as a percentage of the page, then you use this field to enter the percentage of the overall page width to use for the report.

For example, a value of 80 means that your report will take up exactly 80% of the web browser width – leaving a margin of 10% on either side of your report. If you want the report to use the full width of the web browser enter 100.

If you selected to define the width as a number of pixels, then you use this field to enter the number of pixels required for the report page width.

This option has the equivalent effect of applying an HTML table property to the report body. In essence, this creates a border effect around the report body.

This option is only applicable if the Border Attribute is assigned in the Report Area of the relevant CSS style sheet.

This option has the equivalent effect of applying an HTML table property to the various columns and cells.

Select this to create a border effect around the detail, subtotal and total column and cells.

Select this if you want to format a heading in the heading section by applying the column heading style.

For this option to be effective, the value in the First line in heading section to be used as column heading field cannot equal zero.

	This option only applies to field types defined as strings.

This option is used in conjunction with the Use lines from heading section as column headings option.

You use this field to indicate which heading line must be used for the column headings.

The default is to use the 4th line, but this can be changed. The value you enter cannot equal zero.

	This option only applies to field types defined as strings.

You use this field to enter the number of spaces you want between the report columns.

This defaults to 3, but can be changed to any number between 0 and 9. In some cases, increasing the space between the columns can make the report easier to read.

Specify the space between the column edge and the column text.

This defaults to 0, but can be changed to any number between 0 and 9. In some cases, increasing this space make the text within the columns easier to read.

Specify the path and image you want to print.

	The path you define must be accessible to your web browser when viewing your web-based reports.