Summary

Hard-coded standard reports in PayGlobal are written within the source code of the product, and cannot be changed. If these reports do not meet your requirements, specific reports are created using the Report Designer.

All standard and report designer blueprints are available in Report Definitions.

What is a Standard (hard-coded) report?

PayGlobal has a large selection of standard reports that have been specifically developed to accommodate industry or company standards. Standard reports are grouped by the purpose of the report for example, Transaction, Cost Centre, General Ledger, Taxation, Employee, Master File, Leave, Audit and Transaction History.

These reports form part of the program code and cannot be changed by users or consultants. Any changes must be made by PayGlobal Development.

What is a Designer report?

PayGlobal includes a report writer called the PayGlobal Report Designer.

Report Designer is used by PayGlobal Consultants to create designer reports, also referred to as custom reports. You can use report designer, but training (which is chargeable), is required.

Note: In designer reports, the Report Destination | Format field has a "CSV2File" option. If Format = "CSV2File", then the resultant file will not contain additional quotation marks around strings that include spaces. However, strings or numeric values that include commas are enclosed in quotes for Format = "CSVFile" and "CSV2File".

The Rept folders

There are two Rept folders which hold report definitions.

• The main Rept folder is in the application folder. When you run the Import Reports command, this is the folder that the report definitions are extracted to.
• There is a second Rept folder within the data folder. Designer reports, or reports that have had their definition edited, are copied to this folder. PayGlobal looks in this folder first for a report definition. If it is not present, then it looks in the Rept folder within the application folder.

Troubleshooting

When you use the Import Reports run command, reports are extracted to the application Rept folder, but as PayGlobal looks in the data Rept folder first, the old report definition is still used.

If you want to use the new report, either delete or rename the old report definition, which still exists in the data Rept folder.