Style Maintenance

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Use this form to format text and numbers in your reports using HTML tags. Each row in your report has a style assigned. For numerical rows, two styles are assigned; one for positive values and one for negative values.

You must create styles for all formatting combinations you require. For example, if a heading is to be bold and underlined but a sub-heading is only to be bold, these must be set up as two separate formats.

Note: The user must have Financial and Designer User permissions to view this menu.

Code

Enter a code to represent the style, up to 30 alphanumeric characters.

Description

Enter an extended description for the style.

Start Tag

Enter an HTML tag to indicate the style that are applied to the row when it displays using WebView. You can have multiple tags for any row. Each tag should be typed between < > signs, and you do not need spaces between tags.

End Tag

Enter an HTML tag to indicate that the start style should no longer be applied. These tags are processed at the end of each row. To remove formats, type the tag with a forward slash (/) in front of it.

Note:

You should remove formats at the end of each line, otherwise you can end up with a mixture of styles on subsequent rows. For example, if you have a <bold> start tag on one row and don't remove it, then this row prints in bold, even though you perhaps only wanted that row to print in italics (indicated by its own start tag).

You can uses these formatting options with numeric value lines.

Currency Sign

Enter the character to use to represent currency printed on rows.

Decimal Format

Select the decimal format to apply if values have decimal places.

Negate Value

Select this option to reverse the sign on values. For example, an income figure is normally stored as a credit or negative value. If you select this option, it displays as a positive value.

Allow Drill Down

Select this option to drill down to general ledger accounts (and related transactions) that make up a value on financial reports.

Note: You must set up two styles that are the same, except one allows drill down and one does not. For example, users may generally be allowed to drill down on expense values, but you don't want them to drill down to see the details of the wages and salaries expense.

Suppress Narration

Select this option if you do not want the user to see narrations when they drill down to transaction detail.

Blank if Zero

Select this option if you do not want to print zero values.

Negative Sign

Choose whether you want negative values to be represented by a minus sign or with brackets.

Common Tags

These are commonly-used tags in WebView:

Purpose	Start Tag	End Tag
Bold	b	/b
Set font size	font size=10	/font
Underline	u	/u
Set font colour	font color=red	/font

• Row Maintenance

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