Now that we have an understanding of the layout of Management Reporter, we can begin designing our reports starting with creating all of our building blocks. These building blocks consist of Row, Column, Reporting Tree, and Report definitions. Due to the sheer amount of detail and options available in each of the definitions, we can't possibly cover them all in a single chapter. We will, however, be discussing the layouts and the more commonly used options in each definition type. For the complete listing of all the available options, we recommend reviewing the user documentation and the Management Reporter help.
Row definitions are a required component for any report. We can think of them as exactly as they sound; they are the rows of the report. Typically, these are account numbers, but we can also use departments, cost centers, and so on as our rows. Let's look at the layout of the Report definition as shown in the following...