Advanced report design
136 Avaya CMS Custom Reports
Note:
The additional prompts that are displayed differ depending on your selected
data type.
8. Complete the definition of the column by responding to the additional prompts that are
displayed. Which prompts are displayed and in what order depends upon the data type
you selected. The table below lists the possible prompts.
When you have responded to all of the prompts for the column, a new highlighted line
is displayed in the table, and the
Add Name
field is again displayed at the top of the
screen.
9. Repeat steps 6 through 8 for each column you want to add.
Prompts for INFORMIX data types
date-Time
Not supported by CMS Custom Reports. However, it
is supported by INFORMIX.
You must type T in order to select date-Time.
A date-Time column allows you to specify a
database qualifier of year, month, day, hour, or
minute.
Interval
Not supported by CMS Custom Reports. However, it
is supported by INFORMIX.
An interval column allows you to specify an interval
qualifier of year, month, day, hour, or minute.
Money
Not supported by CMS Custom Reports. However, it
is supported by INFORMIX.
If your data will be dollars and cents, you should use
Decimal.
Prompt
What to Do
PRECISION
Select either
Smallfloat
or
Float
.
PRECISION
is displayed for the
Float
type.
INDEX
Enter y if you want to make the column an index.
INDEX
is displayed for all types except
Serial
. A
column with the
Serial
data type automatically
becomes an index.
Make the column an index only if the column will be
used for row searches and the table will contain
more than 200 rows of data.