Report Definition form
Completing the User Interactions tab

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Description

Check the checkbox (the default setting) to display toolbar commands for the Report Viewer and Report Editor. You can enable or disable any of the specific commands below using the checkbox next to each item:

• Viewer Commands
  • Enable Editing
  • Enable Summarize
  • Enable Print
  • Enable Export to PDF
  • Enable Export to Excel
  • Enable Save
  • Enable Save As
• Editor Commands
  • Enable Add Or Edit Chart — for summary-type reports
  • Enable Advanced Filtering
  • Enable Edit Report Title
• Enable Append Column
• Enable Right-Click Column Menu

• See Working with the Report Viewer and Working with the Report Editor to learn more about these commands.

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Description

 Check the checkbox to prompt for changes to the filter before the report is displayed.

 Specify a report definition to use to display detailed information about rows included on the report when the user drills down on a summarized value or column. The filter conditions from this report and the user's drill-down selection override those in the custom drill down report, and no parameter values will be passed to the custom drill down report.

The standard Drill Down report is pyDefaultReport.

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Description

Select to present the list view results in segments — known as pages — each containing a fixed number of rows. Clear to present all rows (up to the Maximum Value count on the Content tab) in one display. Paging is enabled by default.

As a good practice, enable this capability for worklists and for other lists that users need to scan only until they find a row of interest. However, for maximum user productivity, design the selection criteria and sorting in each list view rule to eliminate the need for user paging, or to present as few pages as possible when paging is unavoidable. See the PDN article 26350 When and how to configure paging in reports.
Paging causes the system to retrieve only enough data at a time to populate the number of rows entered for the Page Size property, improving response time and reducing the size of the clipboard.

At runtime, users may see the busy indicator while waiting for a paging operation to complete.

Enter a positive integer not greater than 200 to control how many rows appear at once as a report page. Values between 10 and 50 are typical; the default is 50 rows.

The system divides the responses into numbered pages based on the Page Size value. Select to control the presentation of pages:

• Numeric — Present the first group of N links as page 1, the second group as page 2, and so on, where N is the value of the Page Size field. Numbers 1, 2, ... appear as clickable links. (This is the default mode.)
• Next/Previous — Use navigation buttons to access the next page, or a previous page
• Drop-Down — Present all page numbers in a selection list control.

For example, if the Page Size value is 10 and the report contains 107 rows, the first page contains rows 1 to 10, and the last (11th) page contains the final 7 rows.

Choose Left, Center, or Right as the location of the page control on the list view display. The default is Right.

Select to indicate whether the page control is to appear at the top of the report display, at the bottom, or in both locations.

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Description

Check the checkbox to add a SmartInfo icon to each row of a list-type report. When the icon is clicked, additional information about the selected row displays in a pop-up window.

When the checkbox is checked, two fields appear:

Enter the header to display for the SmartInfo pop-up window.

Select the appropriate activity for the enabled SmartInfo, or click
() to create a new activity. This activity must take one parameter, the pzInsKey of the selected row, and return the output of a section.