Reports Wizard: application for the reporting in IBM Lotus Notes. Help: Report properties

On the tab Reporting Period you can enable/disable of applying the reporting period to data as well as set up start/end dates of the common reporting period. This matters only for a report with special columns to the values ( the type Date ) of which will be applied a reporting period. A reporting period affects the documents selection for a data source at a reporting: only documents whose columns values are in the date range of the period will be selected.

Besides the common reporting period, you can use special periods. The dates of a special reporting period are set up in a column properties and are applied to its value only. The common reporting period is ignored for the columns.

Before enable of a reporting period, you should define the report columns to values of which will be applied it and set up some properties for them. To enable a reporting period, do the next:

• Option Apply Reporting Period;

Check the option to apply a reporting period for data at all, as the common as well special ones.

• Option Set Dates at Reporting;

Check that a user could set the dates of reporting period each time at reporting.

• Field Start Date;

Choose or type a date as beginning of the common reporting period.

• Option Current Date;

Check to apply the current date as start date of the period.

• Option Don't apply date for documents selection.

Check to use start date of the period only for computing values and colors of columns in the report.

• Field End Date.

Choose or type a date as ending of the common reporting period.

• Option Current Date;

Check to apply current date as end date of the period.

• Option Don't apply date for documents selection.

Check to use end date of the period only for computing values and colors of columns in the report.

If you want to stop the applying of any reporting period for data, uncheck the option Apply Reporting Period.

• Section Columns for Reporting Period.

Here are displayed the report columns to values of which will be applied a reporting period. Each column is under its data source by default. Check the List of Columns if you want to see all the columns as a list sorted by the column number. To the right of number and name of a column will be shown the data source name which it belongs to.

•	Option Apply Reporting Period;
	Check the option to apply a reporting period for data at all, as the common as well special ones.
	•	Option Set Dates at Reporting;
		Check that a user could set the dates of reporting period each time at reporting.
	•	Field Start Date;
		Choose or type a date as beginning of the common reporting period.
		•	Option Current Date;
			Check to apply the current date as start date of the period.
		•	Option Don't apply date for documents selection.
			Check to use start date of the period only for computing values and colors of columns in the report.
	•	Field End Date.
		Choose or type a date as ending of the common reporting period.
		•	Option Current Date;
			Check to apply current date as end date of the period.
		•	Option Don't apply date for documents selection.
			Check to use end date of the period only for computing values and colors of columns in the report.
	If you want to stop the applying of any reporting period for data, uncheck the option Apply Reporting Period.
•	Section Columns for Reporting Period.
	Here are displayed the report columns to values of which will be applied a reporting period. Each column is under its data source by default. Check the List of Columns if you want to see all the columns as a list sorted by the column number. To the right of number and name of a column will be shown the data source name which it belongs to.