ZxApp IT Users Guide

15. Reports

ZxApp IT has a reporting system that is second to none!

Creating Reports

To create a report, view the organizer's properties.  This can be done by selecting [File]->[Organizer Properties], or by clicking the icon on the toolbar.  Within the Organizer Properties Dialog, select the  tab.  Double click in the blank area of the table, or right click and select [Add Report].   You will see the screen shown in Figure 15.1.  You must give your report a name, and should also give it a description.  Some of the built-in functions dealing with dates will utilize the date format.  This makes it easy for users to go in and specify how dates should appear in their reports.

Figure 15.1:  The Edit Report Dialog.

Notice that there are two tabs in the Edit Report Dialog; Main and Functions. The tab allows you to create functions.  In ZxApp IT, functions are always associated with a particular node.  They have access to a variable named this which allows access to the associated node.  The reason for this isn't readily obvious within the context of reports, but it will make tremendous sense when creating export templates.  But regardless, this association between a function and a node makes recursing nodes easy and intuitive.  What this means is that a function named "myfunct()" would be referenced as a method of a node.  For instance, 'this.myfunct()', or 'organizer.rootNode.myfunct()'.

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