Sage Timeslips For Dummies

Chapter 14

Building Customized Reports

In This Chapter

Controlling the appearance of the Report List window

Saving two versions of the same report

Creating a new report

Timeslips contains more than 100 standard reports, and in all likelihood, the report you need already exists. But in a few cases, you might want to customize a report.

For example, you might want to edit the titles of the tabs that group reports in the Report List window to make the titles more meaningful to you or to move a report from one tab to another.

Or you might find that you really want two versions of the same report because you print the report regularly using two different sets of report options. Or it’s entirely possible that the report you want isn’t one of the standard reports.

In this chapter, you explore ways to handle each of these situations.

Modifying the Report List Window

You can rename and reorder the group tabs in the Report List window. In addition, if you think a report belongs more logically in a different report group, you can move the report to that group.

To rename or reorder the group tabs in the Report List window, follow these steps:

1. Choose Reports and then click any report group. ...