A row definition is a report component, also called a building block, which specifies the contents of each row in a Management Reporter report. It can be combined with column definitions, reporting tree definitions, and report definitions to create a building block group that can be used by multiple companies. For more information about building block groups, see Building block groups .
Open a row definition
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Open Report Designer. In the navigation pane, click Row Definition.
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Double-click the name of the report or object to open. For information about the elements of a row definition, see Contents of a row definition .
Create a row definition
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Open Report Designer. In the navigation pane, click Row Definition.
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From the Filemenu, click New, and then select Row Definition. For more information about the content of each cell, see Row definition cells .
Contents of a row
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A row definition can contain up to 20,000 financial dimension rows and includes the following information:
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Descriptive text that adds meaning to the report by creating section headings, lines, and spaces, such as Cashor Total Revenue.
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Links to financial data, which can include dimension values in the Microsoft Dynamics ERP system or cells in an Excel spreadsheet.
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You can set up a row definition to pull data from the financial dimensions system every time that the report is generated.
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Row totals and formulas that are based on the linked financial data.
Usually, each row in a row definition contains one of the following types of information:
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References to the financial dimensions system.
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Totals or calculations based on the data.
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Formatting.
You can enter information into a row definition in one of the following ways:
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Enter row information manually into a new row definition. For details about the information to add to each cell, see Row definition cells .
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Use Management Reporter to pull row information directly from the financial dimensions as described in the following topics:
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