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Edit Reports Formatted Text
The Custom Reports module allows users to create, edit, and manage custom reports. This module provides a user-friendly interface to define report headers, fields, filters, and drilldown options, enabling tailored data analysis and reporting.
Creating customised reports for customers is one of the services QuickEasy offers.
Custom reports include two interfaces:
- Edit Reports: Reports are created or edited using SQL. Edit Reports can be found in the Setup menu.
- Custom Reports: Displays the created reports. Custom reports can be added to any Menu Group as a whole or as individual reports. When added as a group, users select reports to display from a dropdown list. This list only contains reports they are authorised to view.
How to Format Text (Editor = Formatted Text)
– Text is formatted by surrounding the text with the appropriate tag in this format: [TAG] text [/TAG].
– The table below provides examples of tags you can use to format the text.
– Multiple formatting options can be applied to the same text (e.g. [B] [I] [COLOR = RED] text [/B] [/I] [/COLOR].
– If a tag is not closed [/TAG] the formatting will continue until the end of the report.
| Design Option | Tag |
|---|---|
| Background Colour | [BACKCOLOR = red] text [/BACKCOLOR] The colour red in this example can be replaced by standard colours (e.g. red, orange, blue, green) or by HTML colour codes (e.g. #FF0000). Most colours are supported (BB Examples, HTML Examples). Please note these are external websites which are not affiliated to QuickEasy Software. |
| Bold | [B] text [/B] |
| Colour | [COLOR = red] text [/COLOR] The colour red can be replaced by standard colours (e.g. red, orange, blue, green) or by HTML colour codes (e.g. #FF0000). Most colours are supported (BB Examples, HTML Examples). Please note these are external websites which are not affiliated to QuickEasy Software. |
| Font | [FONT = Verdana] text [/FONT] You can replace the font Verdana with the font of your choice. However, it must be a font that all your users have installed, else they might not be able to view the report. Common fonts are Arial, Bodoni, Calibri, Calisto, Cambria, Candara, Century Gothic, Courier New, Garamond, Georgia, Impact, Optima, Palatino, Rockwell, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Verdana |
| Hyperlink | [URL=https://www.quickeasysoftware.com]QuickEasy[/URL] Replace www.quickeasysoftware.com with your website address. Replace QuickEasy with the name of the website. Opens the hyperlink in the user’s default browser. |
| Italics | [I] text [/I] |
| Size | [SIZE=12] text [/SIZE] You can select any size. Sizes from 8 upwards are readable on most devices if the display is not scaled. Sizes above 36 tend to be too large. |
| Subscript | [SUB] text [/SUB] This tag must be used on its own. It cannot be nested. |
| Superscript | [SUP] text [/SUP] This tag must be used on its own. It cannot be nested. |
| Underline | [U] text [/U] |
