Overriding report parameters

Each report has its own parameters, most of which are common to all reports

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and these are normally set using the Report Selection Criteria window

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. However, you can override these parameters by modifying the settings in the main configuration file.

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If a user

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sets a specific parameter in the

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amend certain settings, for example the percentage mark-up in a billing report.

Each report has its own ID number - the Billing Report has an ID of 2. This corresponds to the setting in the main configuration file that you need to alter.

As an example, let's fix the % we can set the percentage mark-up in every Billing Report to 50% and set the a surcharge to of £1.00.

You can edit the main configuration file by editing main.cfg using Notepad or something similar. This file is located in c:\tim\config, and in the section entitled [Report Customisations], add or amend the line Report2Extra to read:

Report2Extra = &markup=50&surcharge=1.00

From now on, when a billing report (ID = 2) is run, these extra settings are forced upon the reporting engine and override any values that the user selected.

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To apply these settings, you need to edit the 

Open the the 

Report2Extra = &markup=50&surcharge=1.00</span></p>

<p>From now on, when a billing report (ID = 2) is run, these extra settings are forced upon
the reporting engine and override any values that the user selected.</p>

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In the example above, when a Billing Report is run, these extra settings are forced upon the reporting engine and override any values that the user has selected.