About reports

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When you want to print a report, you can use the Report Designer to create a new report, select a pre-defined report from the Report menu, or use the Print List command to print the contents of the browse list.

To print the browse list, simply choose Print from the File menu. BookCAT will generate a report with the same layout as the currently active list layout.

BookCAT includes a report designer that lets you create almost any type of report. Use one of the more than 80 pre-defined reports, or create your own reports from scratch. You have full control over data fields, groups, sort order, columns, fonts, colors, paper size, margins and print orientation. You can add your own reports to the Report menu so that you can easily print them later.

During the installation of BookCAT, the setup program copied the pre-defined reports to the following folders under the BookCAT folder:

\Reports\Book

Book reports

\Reports\Contents

Contents reports

\Reports\Loan

Loan reports

\Reports\Lookup

Lookup reports

All these reports are automatically added to the Report menu the first time BookCAT is run. Simply open the Report menu and choose the report you want to print.

To work with the Report Designer, choose Report Designer from the Report menu. To modify the contents of the Report menu, choose Edit Menu from the Report menu.