The description cell provides the description of the financial data in the row of the report, such as Revenue or Net Income. The text in the Descriptioncell appears on the report exactly as you type it in the row definition.

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The width of the description column in the report is set in the column definition. If the text in the row definition Descriptioncolumn is long, verify the width of the DESCcolumn. For more information, see Add special formatting options .

When you use the Insert Rows fromdialogue box, the values in the Descriptioncolumn are the segment values or dimension values from the financial data. You can insert rows to add descriptive text, such as a section heading or a section total, and to add formatting, such as a line before a total row.

If the report includes a reporting tree, you can include the additional text that is defined for the reporting units in the reporting tree, and you can restrict the use of the additional text to a specific reporting unit. For information about how to create additional text entries in a reporting tree, see Build a reporting tree definition .

Add the description for a line in a report

  1. In Report Designer, click Row Definitions, and then select a row definition to modify.

  2. Select the Descriptioncell, and then type the name of the report row.

  3. Apply formatting. For more information, see Manage font styles .

Add additional text from a reporting tree in the description

  1. In Report Designer, click Row Definitions, and then select a row definition to modify.

  2. Type the additional text code and any other text into the Descriptioncell.

  3. Apply formatting. For more information, see Manage font styles .

The format of the additional text code is @UnitText#, where #specifies which additional text entry to extract from the reporting tree. The possible values depend on the number of additional text entries that are defined for a reporting unit.

For example, @UnitText4specifies the fourth additional text entry for the reporting unit.

Restrict the additional text to a specific reporting unit

  1. In Report Designer, click Row Definitions, and then select a row definition to modify.

  2. Locate the row where additional text should be created, and then double-click the cell in the Related Formulas/Rows/Unitscolumn.

  3. In the Reporting Unit Selectiondialogue box, select a reporting tree in the Reporting treefield.

  4. In the Select reporting unit for restrictionbox, expand or collapse the reporting tree, and then select a reporting unit.

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