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The Items tab is where you can select which columns you would like to use on your Receiving Report and the format of those columns. The Items tab is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: The Items tab
System Five gives you control over all aspects of the information printed on your Receiving Report. As you can see above, the columns, Font, Color of both the columns and comments, decimal points, lines, shading, borders are all definable on the Receiving Report designs.
Below the Item Table is the list of Available Items that can be added to the columns on your Receiving Report.
See also: Receiving Report Items for a complete list of available data items.
Figure 2: Available column selection.
In Figure 2 the Ordered item is highlighted in the Columns on the right.
To add an item to the Columns list, double-click the item in the Available list or highlight the item in the Available list and click the 
button.
To remove an item from the Columns list, double-click the item in the Columns list or highlight the item in the Columns list and click the 
button.
To change the order of the items in the Columns list, highlight the item and click the 
button to move the item up or the 
button to move it down. The changes are reflected in the Item Table at the top of the window.
You can further modify the items by changing the caption that will print on your Receiving Report. Click in the second row of the Item Table and type the new caption you want to print. Figure 3, below shows the caption for the Ordered column changed to 'Qty Required'. When this Receiving Report is printed, the data from the Ordered field will appear under the caption 'Qty Required'
Figure 3: The Item Caption example
You can also change the alignment or font style with the Font Buttons, the number of decimal points for numbers, the color of the comments and several overall print related items, as shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: The Grid options
The system wide retail & cost decimal settings are applied to all Retail & Cost columns automatically. You can adjust the values for specific Receiving Report designs. All other numeric columns will default to 0 and can be set a value between 0 and 4.
The Option Check list on the right contains several Print related options which are detailed in Table 1.
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Option |
Purpose and Affect |
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Print Grid Lines |
Check this option to print the lines between the rows and columns. |
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Print Grid Shading |
Check this option to print the shaded colors of the lines |
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Comment Shading |
Check this option to print the shading in the Comments |
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Comment Border |
Check this option to print the Border on the Comments |
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Comment 3-D Border |
Check this option to print the Comment Border as a 3-D or raised image. |
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Print Column Header |
Check this option to print the Column Headers or Captions. |
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Scale Columns |
Check this option to Scale the columns to fit on the Printed Page. Use this with caution as the scaling may make some columns too small to be read. |
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Print Header Comment |
Check this option to print the Header Comments. |
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Header Comment 1st pg Only |
Check this option to print the Header Comments on the first page even if the [Print Header Comment] option above is not checked. |
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No Line Comments |
Check this option to Not Print all line comments. |
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Don't Adjust Print Font |
Check this option to prevent the formatted fonts from being used when printing. |
Table 1: The Grid Option details
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