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R:BASE 11 Beginners Tutorial

Navigation: Lesson 5 - Report Output

Printing the Employee Phone List

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The report can be printed to the screen, a printer, or to a file.

 

To print the employee phone list to the printer:

 

1.In the Database Explorer, click the Reports option.
2.Select "EmployeePhoneList".
3.Click the "Print Report..." option.

 

The "Print Report" dialog box is displayed. The EmployeePhoneList report comment and driving table is displayed. The print target is on the "Screen" option by default.

 

4.Select "Printer" from the print target options.
5.Click the OK button and the report is printed to the current printer.

 

 

To print the employee phone list to a HTML file:

 

1.In the Database Explorer, click the Reports option.
2.Select "EmployeePhoneList."
3.Click the "Print Report..." option.

 

The "Print Report" dialog box is displayed.

 

4.Select "File" from the print target options.
5.Click the OK button.

 

The "Print" dialog box is displayed.

 

Note the different format types within the "Type:" drop down box to print the current report.

 

6.Select "HTML Document" from the "Type:" drop down box.
7.In the "File Name:" field, the default name of the file is the report name. For the report, leave it "EmployeePhoneList.htm".

 

Print_HTML

 

8.Click the OK button.

 

The next screen will provide many different options for setting up the HTML file format. For now, we will skip the additional options and move on.

 

9.Click the OK button.

 

The report is printed to the current directory where the database files are located and you are now at the Database Explorer screen.