Report Specifications is a straightforward point-and-click expression builder offering a consistent user interface to create and refine report content. Using the dialog box and associated tabs you can refine the body of the report to establish:

• How the data is sorted
• How the data is summarized
• Run time parameters
• The selection criteria applied to the data
• The conditions to be used in calculations or printing
• Calculated workfields
• Where page breaks occur
• Building conditions, selections and calculations

Extensions to the Report Specifications builder include Condition, Selection and Calculation builders to simplify expression creation. Using buttons to indicate mathematic, field/function selection, parenthesis, arithmetic or character string operations, expressions can even be constructed with the click of a mouse button. Jacana intuitively prompts each stage of the expression pointing out any inconsistencies that require correction.

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