The Report Manager is PrintPoint’s tool for managing customized reports. It allows you to print, preview, and access the editors to create/edit the following kinds of reports:
SuperReport is PrintPoint’s most sophisticated report generator. SuperReport gives the user the ability to replace the “built-in” PrintPoint reports such as Estimates, Quotes, Job Tickets and Invoices with their own custom-designed reports or create their own reports.
QuickReports are used to create and print columnar reports from a selection of records displayed in a List View. With the QuickReport Editor you can:
Produce lists of records
Create break levels (subtotals)
Define sort order
Compute summary calculations
Set page headers and footers
Determine fonts, font sizes, style, column widths, and justification.
The Label Editor lets you create any kind of label for all tables. Common usages would be for the customer or supplier mailing labels. The Label Editor allows you to:
Select the desired records for the labels from a List View
Either load an existing template or setup the label from scratch
Set up the layout for your labels
Drag and drop the fields and the static text you will be using Save the label format for later use.
The Chart Editor is used to create and print a wide variety of standard business graphs. Using the Chart Editor, you can plot your data without having to export the data to a graphics package. You can print your graphs or copy them to the Clipboard and paste them into another application.
(PrintPoint’s Chart Editor is one of the several plug-in tools that are packaged with the 4D Database Engine used at the core of PrintPoint. We provide access to this tool for your convenience, but do not support the use of it. Full documentation is available via pdf and the 4D web site)