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What You Will Learn [ HP ALLBASE/BRW Tutorial ] MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation


HP ALLBASE/BRW Tutorial

What You Will Learn 

Exercise             Description                                                                                                     

Sketching the        Look at a rough sketch of the report you will create
Report               as you go through this tutorial.  5 minutes 

Using the Glossary   How to look up words in the tutorial glossary.  5 
                     minutes 

Creating the Report  5 minutes 

Adding a Password    5 minutes 
and a Report
Description

Defining the Data    How BRW uses tables.  How to define the final access
Access               table.  How to specify the source tables.  How to
                     project items.  20 minutes 

Defining Sorts and   How to define sort items, set the level of each sort
Breaks               item, and set the direction of the sort.  5 minutes 

Defining Linesets    How to define linesets.  The use of standard items.
                     How to alter the length of an item.  How to use Item
                     edit masks.  How to add, copy, insert, modify, and
                     delete lines.  How to do column calculations, that
                     is, using the ColCalc field with TOTAL. 60 minutes 

Reviewing the        How to make sure that your report is correct before
Layout               compiling it.  5 minutes 

Compiling the        How to compile a report specification file to
Report               produce the report execution file.  How errors are
                     indicated by compilation messages.  10 minutes 

Requesting the       How to stream a job that runs the report execution
Report               file.  How to set the print device, number of
                     copies, and priority.  How to make sure that the job
                     is running.  10 minutes 

Total Time:          2 hours 10 minutes 



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