Output Group

An Output Group is used to define the parameters that will be passed to a report when it is executed. Each Report in your Project has one or more Output Groups, which allows you to process the same report multiple times, using different parameters each time.

Each Report must have at least one Output Group.

Once you have added the Output Group, you add one or more File Outputs or Print Outputs to the group, to tell Report Commander how to export or print your report. Each Output in the Output Group will use the same set of parameters.

If you need to produce an additional Output using different parameters, you would add an additional Output Group for those parameters, then add the additional Output to that group.

To add a new Output Group to a Report, select the Report in the Project Navigator and click the Add Output Group button () on the Main Toolbar.

Output Group Properties Panel

To reach this panel, select the Output Group name in the Project Navigator and click the Settings () button in the main toolbar.

Settings on the Output Group Properties panel apply to all Outputs that are within this group.

Preview

Once you have set the parameters, you can use the Preview button () on the Panel Toolbar to display a print preview of the report using these parameters.

Properties

Group Name

Enter a name for this group. This can be something that describes the parameters (like "Today's Sales").

Enabled

Check this box to enable processing for the group. If you want to temporarily stop processing outputs for this group without deleting them from the project, uncheck the box. All outputs in the group will be skipped if the Enabled option is not checked.

Suppress outputs for these parameters if the report does not return any records

Check this box if you do not want Report Commander to e-mail the report output if it did not produce any records.

This option works by checking to see if the report contains detail records, regardless of whether they are displayed, and may not always produce the result you want. More information.

Report Parameters

The Parameters list shows all the parameters found in the report.

If this list does not match what you expect to see, try reloading the report.

For each parameter, click the Edit button to open the Parameter Editor and set the value for the parameter.

ID Code

The ID Code is used to identify this item when filtering is applied on the Project Runner command line.