Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Reporting:
Query/Results for UNIX

> ## Introduction

> Results includes a special User option that appears on the Results main menu and the horizontal menus within Results modules when there is a user program defined for Results.

> The user uses the User option to transfer into a customized application program that you provide.

> | To install your own program:

> 1. Put your program anywhere in the `PROPATH`.

> 2. Enter its name in the User Option choice on the Administration main menu.

> After you perform these steps, Results runs your program whenever users select the User option from any Results menu. If you want to include more than one user program, you can have the User option call a menu that includes them.

> By default, Results includes a sample User program called `u-option.p` that lets the user escape to the operating system. To get back to Results, they perform the operating system escape.

> When Results runs against a copy of the Results `sports` database, it automatically installs the `u-option.p` program in the User option. When it runs against any other database, you (or the database administrator) must enter its name in the User option choice on the Administration module main menu.

> For example, you can call a word processor or spreadsheet package from the Results main menu or, you might want to pass the records the user has selected for reports to a statistical analysis routine or other customer program you wrote in the Progress 4GL. These are just two examples of how you can use the User option.

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