Specifications

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Create a New Report
As with other report types, go to the Argos Explorer, right-click on the DataBlock to be
used for this report, then select “New Report”. Give the report a Name and Description,
click “Extract text report”, then the “Create” button.
Figure 155 –Create a new report dialog box
You can add additional Filters or Sort the data that comes from the Report Query by
clicking the Filters and Sort tabs shown in the figure below. Refer to the
Filters and Sort
section in this guide for an explanation of this feature is used when creating CSV reports.
This feature is also available to Banded and Extract Reports.
Figure 157 – Adding the Report Name and Description
Click the “Design” button to begin the creation of the report.
The Extract Report Editor will then be displayed which is used to design the report.
The DataBlock used in this example
The Sample Database used for other examples
in this guide will also be used here and will
create 1099 forms for vendors that supplied
services to the Company existing in the Sample
Database. The Purchase_Orders, Vendors, and
Purchase_Order_Items tables contain the
vendor information. The “Company” table
contains information about the company
submitting the file to the IRS.
A DataBlock was developed to sum the Purchase
Order records for each vendor that received a
1099 form. Vendors with the “reqd1099” field set
to ‘Y’ will receive 1099s. This will be one of the
Datasets used in the Extract Report. The
Company table, which is not joined with any
other table, will be one of the other Datasets
used in the Extract Report.
Figure 156 –The database tables used in this
example