MONTANA RIVERS INFORMATION SYSTEM 

 Rivers Report 



3 GENERATING REPORTS 



3.1 Overview 



In the previous examples you have selected different types of reports and 

 displayed them to the screen. In this section, re-enter the retrieval you designed 

 in Section 2.4 Searching by Fish, Wildlife and Parks Water Codes and 



print it out in each of the four available formats. This will help you to see which 

 of the formats you prefer. Obviously, your preference may change depending on 

 the kind of search you do, the kind of questions you need answered, and the level 

 of detail you desire. 



In addition to selecting the report format, the MRIS Rivers Report software 

 also gives you several options in where you send the report. These options can 

 be seen under PRODUCE THE REPORT on the opening screen shown below. 



Figure 30. Opening Screen 



The first option allows you to count the records included in your retrieval. 

 This is a very good thing to do prior to printing a report so that you have some 

 idea of how big the printout will be and how long it will take to print. If the 

 report is very large, you may want to redesign your retrieval to reduce the 

 number of records included, or you may want to send the report to a text file on 

 a floppy disk. 



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