Report Commands

CAPITAL's financial report writer comes with a series of 'commands' that may be included anywhere you choose inside your reports. The majority of these act as 'information request codes'. For example, the command [Time] replaces the key word 'time' with the time that the report was printed. Other commands direct the report printing system to perform special tasks and do not print anything on the report as such.

A list of the codes that make up these commands, and their purpose, follows:

The following commands direct the formatting of report printing. They do not print anything themselves:

[@setzero]	When this command is encountered, account information for accounts with zero balances for the period and year are not printed. Note that the printing of user variables or function calculations are not suppressed by this command, even if their results are zero.
[@setblank]	Prints a blank space in place of "0.00" if an account balance for the period or year is zero.
[@setnormal]	Turns off either of the above two print suppression modes.
[@centre]	Centres all further lines of text in the middle of the report. Centering is determined by the report width setting.
[@leftjustify]	Left justify further lines of text.
[@rightjustify]	Right justify further lines of text.
[@nojustify]	Turn line justification off.
[@nul]	Print nothing.
[@newpage]	Start new page at this point.

The following commands request information that is retrieved and printed on the report:

[@today]	Today's date in dd mm yy format.
[@ltoday]	Today's date in words and numbers.
[@time]	The system time according to the built in clock in your computer or possibly your network server.
[@periodnumber]	The number of the current accounting period.
[@periodname]	The name of current accounting period.
[@periodstart]	The start date of the current period in dd mm yy format.
[@periodend]	The end date of the current period in dd mm yy format.
[@periodnamestart]	The start date of the current period in words and numbers.
[@periodnameend]	The end date of the current period in words and numbers.
[@year]	The current financial year.
[@user]	The name of the user printing the report. This will be blank unless the security system is in use.
[@yourname]	The company name as entered during general operations set up.
[@yourabn]	Your a.b.n. number if applicable.
[@youracn]	Your a.c.n. number if applicable.
[@youraddress]	The company address.
[@yoursuburb]	The company suburb.
[@yourstate]	The company state.
[@yourpostcode]	The company postcode.

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