Note: The usual pre-set reports are described in this and following topics, but the flexibility of configuration in Autoline may result in your system having extra pre-set options in the menu.
Note: Ad hoc enquiries and the Enquiries menu are covered in a separate on-line help topic, as are Report Generator reports.
What do you want to do?
The features the menu provides are of three main kinds. These are the facilities of the Report Generator sub-system, those of the Ad-hoc enquiries option and the pre-set reports.
Note: The usual pre-set reports are described in this topic, but the flexibility of configuration in Autoline may result in your system having extra pre-set options in the menu.
The facilities of the Report generator sub-system are common to all Autoline software applications. These facilities allow you to create your own reports from any combination of the fields on your account records.
This of course gives added significance to every field of the Purchase Ledger account record. Any combination of system-generated or user-entered fields can be used to provide detailed information in reports that you yourself design. Instead of being forced to depend on a few standard reports, you can select the ones that meet your individual day to day requirements, or you can create special reports which will solve particular problems as they arise. For further information on the Report generator, refer to the Report Generator on-line help.
The facilities of the Ad-hoc enquiries option are common to all Autoline software applications. A powerful and sophisticated data base allows specialised enquiries of any module. Enquiries can be formulated using field and verb references. Because of the consistency and application through all modules, a separate document has been produced.
A number of reports are already set up on this menu. They perform standard commercial tasks. It is important to note that these reports have themselves been set up with the Report Generator, and placed on the menu. You can create and store reports of this complexity yourself using the Report Generator sub-system.
When you have finished filling the prompts for a given report, the system has the following set of buttons:
Cancel : Clicking this button returns you to the menu.
OK: Clicking the OK button prints the report at the printer named on the menu status line.
Batch: The Batch button is more complex and is discussed within each individual report topic.
The Aged creditors analysis report does not use the Batch-print option but prints immediately.
