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+ | Many users have custom reports they have developed in Word or Crystal Reports (or had developed for them). | ||
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+ | Control 4 permits an alternate way of attaching reports to the menu. You can reconstruct the report menu as a file structure in your reports folder (C:\Program Files\Cyrious\Control\Reports by default) and then drop the files into the correct folder and they will appear in the menus when you restart Control. | ||
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+ | For example, to add a new report under Reports | Sales on the main menu, you could create the following folder structure: | ||
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+ | Omit the leading two periods in the folder name, since Windows won’t allow two periods at the start of a folder name. Now place your custom invoice in that folder, and it will appear in the invoice menu when you restart. | ||
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+ | You can still make changes to the report configuration for reports that are dynamically configured. | ||
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+ | ==See Also== | ||
+ | * Backlinks [[include_pagepage_componentbacklinks|include page=" | ||
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