To display a report on your screen, select Operations > Display report.
- If a complete report is currently loaded, that report is displayed. The report remains loaded when the display is complete.
- If no report is loaded, you are prompted for the report name. Enter the name of the report you want to view. To select a report from a list of available reports, select Name functions > List selections. When the display is complete, no report is loaded.
You can cancel the display of a report by pressing the interrupt key for your system.
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You can select Display report from anywhere in ReportWriter, but if you haven’t finished defining at least one field to print (on a detail line, break line, or header/footer line), you’ll get an error message. |
Viewing hints
- Once the report is displayed, ReportWriter pauses at the end of each screen page.
- If the right side of the report is out of view, you can select Page > Scroll right to display it. Select Scroll left to redisplay the left side of the report.
- When you’re ready to view the next page, select Page > Next page.
- To redisplay previously viewed pages of the report, select Previous page to move up one page.
- To go to the top of the report, select First page.
- To return to the most recently viewed page, select Last page. (Note that Last page does not go to the last page in the report.)
- To exit the report display, press the Exit shortcut.
