Basic Flow of Reports

sankar

Hi All,

I have some doubts regarding the flow of reports . i.e i am having three dataitems.. Like vendor ledger entry, Purchase inv. header, Purchase inv. Line.. i have indented the three dataitems.. can any one explain how the report flow will occur.. like Header,footer etc.

Thanks in advance.. I have referred manuals but little confusing....

markborges

Hi there sankar. That's what I figured out of the Developer Guide:

Let's suppose 4 dataitems as below:

1-Sales Invoice Header (SIH)
1.1-Customer (CU)
1.1.1-Contacts (CO)
2-Purch. Inv. Header (PIH)

Then, the report will execute Header, Body and Footer as follow:


SIH.HEADER
SIH.GROUPHEADER
SIH.BODY
-CU.HEADER
-CU.GROUPHEADER
-CU.BODY
--CO.HEADER
--CO.GROUPHEADER
--CO.BODY
--CO.GROUPFOOTER
--CO.FOOTER
-CU.GROUPFOOTER
-CU.FOOTER
SIH.GROUPFOOTER
SIH.FOOTER

PIH.HEADER
PIH.GROUPHEADER
PIH.BODY
PIH.GROUPFOOTER
PIH.FOOTER


Note that sub-dataitems repeat its complete cycle every "body" from the parent dataitem. This means that for each record on SIH dataitem, you'll have all header, gheader, body, CU cycle, gfooter and footer again.

Remember that the GroupHeader and GroupFooter are processed only if applicable.

sankar

Hi Mark

Thanks for the explanation. It has given idea about the flow. Thanks again...

sankar

Thanks again mark

kine

The diagram of trigger flow is part of the Designer guide which is on the install cd in doc folder.