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The easiest way to create a new report definition is to select an existing one, looking as similar as possible to the one you want to create, and then copy that. The alternative is to create a new report definition from scratch, which is also possible.

 

All report definitions included at delivery of cadett ELSA, have names beginning with zero. It is recommended to assign your own report definitions names that begin with other characters, to make them distinguishable from standard report definitions. Consequently, you will then avoid problems in connection with updates as well. One possibility is to use exclamation mark (“!”) as the first character in the names of your user-defined report definitions. The nice thing about that, is that they will then be presented at the top of the list, since exclamation mark is considered to be the second character in the extended ANSI alphabet that is used in Windows, second only to the space character (“ ”).

 

The following sub-topics describes how you can manage report definitions:

 

•Creating a new report definition

•Changing an existing report definition

•Copy a report definition

•Delete a report definition

•Collect and convert report definitions