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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.
If you are unfamiliar with SQL, creating customised reports for customers is one of the services QuickEasy offers.
Custom reports are split over two functions:
- Edit Reports is the interface where you create the report using SQL. Edit Reports can be found in the Setup menu.
- Custom Reports is where you can view the reports you created. You may add the custom reports to any Menu Group. You may also add individual reports to any menu group. If you add Custom Reports as a menu option, a dropdown list is created from which you can select the reports. If you add the individual report to a menu, that report is automatically selected and there is no dropdown list.
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 |
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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] [/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] [/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] |