Specifications

ID Works Standard and Enterprise Version 5 Administrator’s Guide
4 Plan and Create
the Report Design
What Is a Report Design?
A report design defines how a paper report will look when printed:
what information will be the same for each record in the report (such
as a logo or enterprise name), what information will vary from record
to record (the subject’s name or photo), how the elements will be
arranged within each report block, and what information will appear at
the top and bottom of each page of the report.
Information for reports comes from the database the ID Works project
is connected to. You cannot use ID Works reports without a
database.
ID Works projects can contain zero, one, or more report designs.
Those designs can be similar or completely different.
You can create report designs from start to finish or modify one of the
sample report designs provided with your ID Works software.
The report block is the basis of the report design. You define the size
of the report block, what fields it contains, whether it has a border,
and what the border looks like. Depending on how you specify the
report block, a printed report might have a single report block per
printed page, as in the Employee of the Month report in the Sample
Corporate project, or it could have many report blocks per page as in
the Student Class Report in the Sample Loyalty project.