Report parameters
You can specify the parameters of the report. For example, the
Customer purchases report of the Demo project have three parameters.
To add or change a report parameter click Report params button in the left
panel of the Application builder. A form will appear displaying the list of existing
parameters. Then click New or Edit button of the form to add or change the
parameter.
In the dialog box fill in:
- Caption - the name of the parameter that appears to users
- Name - the name of the parameter will be used in programming code to get
access to the parameter object.
- Type - the data type of the parameter
- Visible - the client application creates a form to specify the parameters
before printing the report. If this checkbox is checked, the input element for
this parameter will appear in the form
- Required - if this checkbox is checked and Visible attribute is set,
the client application will require a users to specify the parameter value
before printing the report
- Align - specifies how a value of the parameter will be aligned in the
input element
You can create a lookup parameter, For example, the Customer purchases
report has a Customer parameter that can be selected from Customers
catalog:
In this case you should specify
- Lookup item - the item to select the parameter value from
- Lookup field - the field in the lookup item
Form for setting the parameters of Customer purchases report is as follows: