The first step in this wizard is to enter the following information:

  • Name: the name of the report. Although you can go to another next step without entering a valid name, you cannot click Finish to save the report.

  • Title: the title for the report. The title, which defaults to whatever you entered for Name, appears at the top of every page of the report. If you want to use an expression rather than fixed text, surround the expression with "{" and "}" (without the quotes). Note that the expression must evaluate to a string value, so use the Str() function if necessary to convert non-string values such as dates and numbers to their string equivalent.

    Here's an example of an expression that displays "Sales for " (such as "Sales for December 2015") in the report header:

      {"Sales for " + MonthName(Now()) + " " + Str(Year(Now()))}
    

  • Comments: any comments entered here appear in the Information window for the report in the Reports Explorer. You can expand the text area for entering comments by dragging the handle in the lower-right corner of the area.

  • Tags: the tags for the report. Click in the tags area to display a drop-down list of tag names. Select one from the list to add that tag to the report. To remove a tag, click the "x" to the left of its name. You can add as many tags as you wish to a report.

Note that if the report has an advanced layout, a message appears informing you of that.


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