Include manual report objects in a report format

Manual report objects can be included in report formats which are to be used for periodical reports. The manual report objects have no relevance for the other report types.

Select Edit ® Report Formats. The Report Formats dialog box appears.

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Find the periodical report format in which you want to show the values for the manual report object.
Select the report heading under which you want to show the object.
Under Chosen objects, click the Manual button. The Manual Report Objects dialog box appears.
Click the Add button.
Enter the relevant properties for the manual report object. Click Show picture to see an example.

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Click OK.

The object is now visible in the list of manual report objects. The properties for the new object are saved in the Genhdm.mdb database allowing you to enter hourly, daily and monthly values for the manual report object in the Manual Report Editor program.

Position the two dialogs, Manual Report Objects and Report Formats, so that you can drag the new manual report object into the desired report format.

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Select the new manual report object and drag it onto the Report Formats dialog. When the + sign appears, drop the object.
Close the Manual Report Objects and Report Formats dialogs.
If you want to enter manual report values immediately for the new object, you must generate the necessary data basis first by running our data reduction engine, Genhdm.exe.

Find Genhdm.exe in the \Gss subfolder of the installation path and double-click the file. When the program window appears, choose Action ® Run Genhdm. The data reduction engine will now generate the base class files (.bcl) and the hourly, daily and monthly values in Genhdm.mdb. When the file generation is complete, you can enter values for the new object in the Manual Report Editor program.
Click here to learn how to enter values for a manual report object.