What is the Report Order?

The Report Order tells the report which columns you want to use in each report section. While the Report Sections tells the report what to show in each report section. For now, we'll wait to talk about the Report Sections so we can focus on the Report Order.

For example, the General Ledger Reconciliation Report is divided into three report sections: Main, Date, and Account Summary. When you set up the Report Order, you can assign the columns the report will use to create the report section.

You can also determine how to print the information in each report section. You can start a report section on a new page or print the report sections one right after another.

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What is the Report Order?
1. Where is it?
1. What does it do?
1. Why is it important?
1. How can this help me?

Where is it?

The control for Report Order is located on the Report Options tab, usually it's the first tab that displays when you launch a report.

What does it do?

The Report Order helps you organize the information to display in each report section.

You can have multiple reporting sections and you can set up each reporting section to report different types of information.
You can change the reporting order from ascending (A-Z) to descending (Z-A).
You can print the column title.
You can total the column amounts or count the number of records or transactions when the column value contains text or a date.
You can start printing the information for each column on a new page.
You can apply the column properties from the report order to the entire field, a portion of the field, or you can specify the number of characters or digits in the field.

Why is it important?

When you set up the Report Order, you'll need to include all of the columns the report will need to use to calculate the amounts or information you want to display in the reporting section. Think of the Report Order as all of the background information the report will need to access to do what you want it to do.

How can this help me?

The Report Order lets you define the content of each reporting section. It lets you organize the report order so the reporting sections appear in the order you want them to appear on the report. Which means you can change the report order to best suit your reporting needs.