SuperReport Pro provides added flexibility in report generation. Its presence not only permits the creation of more complex reports than the Quick Report generator, but also the design and use of custom forms when printing Invoices, Delivery Notes, Purchase Orders and so on.

A SuperReport Pro report is a template that is used to generate printed output (whether previewed on screen, or in printed form). The report contains objects and sections that determine what to print and where on the page to print it.

The report document also contains details of how many sections (header, body, subtotal, footer etc.) the report contains, what value changes trigger break processing (subtotals, averages and so on), which fields or variables are to be subtotalled, and what scripts are to be executed before, during and after the report is generated. The report document also contains the Page Setup information for the report, the positions of any guides along with the ruler units (point, mm or inches) used by the report.

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Infrastructure

Version 4 and above of Daybook Enterprise allows SuperReport Pro documents to be stored inside the Daybook Enterprise data file, rather than as separate files on the hard disk. This makes multi-user access to reports much easier to manage.

Opening SuperReport Pro

SuperReport Pro can be activated either by clicking the [Report] button in the Buttons Palette at a listing screen, or by clicking the [Edit Templates] button on the Forms Settings 2 page of Preferences.

Printing SuperReports

When the [Report] button is clicked from a listing screen, you are shown a listing of all existing Reports defined for the file in which you have just performed a search. At the base of the list is a [Print] button. For example, if you have a listing of Companies on screen, clicking the [Report] button will list all reports based on the Companies file. From there you can immediately highlight one (or, in fact, more than one) report and press the [Print] button. The resulting report(s) will cover all the Companies in the listing or, if applicable, all highlighted Companies. The report list can be searched, sorted, selected etc in the normal way. Double-clicking on a line will bring up that report format for editing, and clicking the [+] button will allow you to design a new report format.
The [Edit Templates] button provides a list of all the SuperReport report formats in Daybook Enterprise and again the formats can be edited and new ones created. However, you will not be able to print.