Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Reporting:
Query/Results Administration and Development

Application preferences

You use the Preferences dialog box to define default behaviors.

To display the Preferences dialog box and define default behaviors for your Results application and development environment, choose Query Customize Preferences. The Preferences dialog box appears:

The Preferences dialog box contains the following user-interface elements:

Product name

Specifies a string to display in the title bar of the Results application window. This string also is displayed in certain error messages.

Icon

Represents the Results application in the current window system. Choose this icon to view and select a graphics file.

Delimiters

Specifies the left and right delimiter characters that delimit functions in report headers and footers and the fields in address (and other) labels. The curly braces { } are the default delimiter characters, but they are not appropriate defaults in some cases. For example, 7-bit character sets use the curly braces for special characters; in this case, specify angle brackets < > as delimiter characters. Do not specify the same character for the left and right delimiters. You can use square brackets [ ] as long as there are no arrays in your reports or labels. You cannot use parentheses ( ) because they interfere with the label-generation code.

Using the Exit feature

Specifies the exit behavior performed by the Exit feature in the Results application. Table 3–1 identifies and describes the two possible exit behaviors.

Table 3–1: Exit feature options

This Exit feature option...	Will...
Return from procedure-name	Terminate the Results application and returns to the procedure that called the Results application. If you start the session with results.p as the startup procedure, the Progress session terminates. This is the default.
Quit from procedure-name	Terminates the Results application and the current Progress session.

Write configuration

Specifies the configuration Save behavior. The menu options associated with the Site Administration and Customize let you define and modify the configuration information stored in the current QC7 file. This setting allows you to determine when information is written to the current QC7 file Table 3–2 identifies and describes the two possible Save behaviors.

Table 3–2: Write configuration Save options

This Write configuration Save option...	Will...
Exit from Results	Save changes to the current QC7 file when you exit Results. This is the default behavior.
After each dialog box	Save changes to the current QC7 file when you exit an administration or programming dialog box using the OK button.

When you save the configuration information to the current QC7 file, Results regenerates the fastload files associated with the current QC7 file.

Rebuild check during startup

Specifies for Results to check the database schema against the compiled code at startup.

Display Results in 3D

Specifies to display all Results dialog boxes in 3D.

Setting this configuration information allows you to define the Results configuration for the end-user environment and to simulate that configuration in the development environment.