Printing Your Database History

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The most recent version of MainBoss is MainBoss 4.2.4.
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You can print your database history by clicking the Print button in Administration | Database History. This opens a window that contains the following:

Sorting section: Options controlling how the report is organized.

Sort by list: These options determine how items are sorted.

Sort Direction: Determines whether sorting will go from lowest to highest (Ascending) or highest to lowest (Descending). Sort Direction options only appear if you pick a Sort by option where sort direction is relevant.

Filtering section: Options controlling which entries will be included in the report.

Advanced section: Miscellaneous options.

Suppress Costs: Omits any money information that might otherwise be displayed in the report.

Format Report in Columns: If this checkbox is checkmarked, the report will have information formatted in columns; this has the advantage of compressing a lot of information into a small amount of space, but may be difficult to read, especially if you ask for many pieces of information to be displayed. If the checkbox is blank, information will be laid out in a less rigid format.

Title: The title to be printed at the beginning of the report.

Font Size: The font size to be used for all standard characters in the print-out (i.e. anything that isn't a heading).

Main Font: The font that will be used for most of the characters in the report. This should be a font that is supported by both your Windows system and your printer.

Fixed-width Font: The font that will be used for information that is printed with fixed-width characters (mostly unit specifications). This should be a font that is supported by both your Windows system and your printer.

Show checkboxes: A list of checkboxes that let you determine what information is displayed in the report. If a box is checkmarked, that type of information will be displayed; if a box is blank, that type of information will not be displayed.

Preview section: Displays a visual preview of the report. If you click the Preview button, you automatically go to this section.

The Preview section contains buttons for looking through the report preview and for actually printing the information. For more on using the Preview section, see Report Buttons.

Preview: Clicking this button generates a preview of the report, displayed in the Preview section of the window.

Print: Immediately prints the report.

Export Data: Exports the report's data in XML format.

Cancel: Cancels the preparation and printing of a report. This button is enabled only when MainBoss is preparing a report, i.e. gathering the data and formatting it. For more information, see Report Buttons.

Close: Closes the window.

For general information on MainBoss reports, see Reports. For more on database history, see Database History.

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