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In this lecture we're going to build a quick user interface using Graphics designer.

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So I'm going to go to the graphics designer.

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We'll end up adding another button here.

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I'll just duplicate our Manage staff button.

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And then I'll just add the text reports here.

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If you recall, this just runs a VB script that shows a picture window.

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So we're going to create a picture window that will allow us to set up the tags and preview our report.

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And then we'll come back and then we will change this.

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So now I'll just hit save here and then we'll do a new PDL.

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I'm just going to just kind of make this small.

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So let's say the width is going to be 750.

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I'm just kind of guessing here.

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and maybe 400, maybe a little narrow, maybe 300.

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We will turn off our global color scheme.

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And let's just put a banner up here and we'll make this production orders report, turn off our global

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effects, and just set a few properties here that we want.

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Maybe make this green, give it a white font.

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and we need our tags.

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So I will go to our tags dialog here.

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And under reporting I'll do my begin date and my end date.

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And we're going to grab some static text.

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And I'll just set this up and let's go ahead and set our font up so that we can read these move these

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tags out of the way.

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And this I feel that is my begin date.

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So I will just move it up here.

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And then I can highlight begin, copy the properties out of it, paste the properties down in there.

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And that will give it the same font size and everything.

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And then I'll select them both and just kind of align them.

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Then I'll use my arrow keys to kind of line them up And then same thing here.

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I'll just move the end date over here, highlight my begin date, then highlight my end date and create

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the same size.

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And we will copy the properties out of that.

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Paste them in there and I'll use my arrow keys.

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Now the date is kind of long.

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That's kind of a big font.

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So I'm just going to make these kind of big and I will duplicate here, use my arrow keys to kind of

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move this around there's end.

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And then I'll select both of these and center these up and maybe make them different colors here to

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turn off my global color scheme for these.

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And I'll also turn off the global color scheme for these as well.

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Now one thing that we want to do is, you know, that we have start values in these tags for the dates.

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And when we click we don't want to blow that away.

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Maybe we just want to change one character.

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And I think it's on user defined two.

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And we will do clear on new input.

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We're going to change that to no.

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That way when we click in there it won't clear the input.

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And I'll hit save there.

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And we're going to just save this as production orders report.

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Spell that right there.

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Hit save.

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Now we need a button to generate our print or preview.

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So I'll just grab a button here.

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And for our text we will just call this Preview report.

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Now we have to use C script for this because there is no VBS interface to the report manager.

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And I'm a little surprised at that.

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But it is what it is.

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So we got preview report I'll turn off my effects I don't know maybe make that purple.

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And we're going to go to events.

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And before I do this we're going to go back to Control Center.

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go to our print job, and I'm just going to copy this name just because I'll probably end up spelling

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it wrong or something.

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So it's just production orders.

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And now going back to Graphics designer on the button, I will just do a release left and we'll do see

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action.

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And this is just for cross reference.

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Just for simplicity's sake, I'm going to get rid of this.

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I do like the line numbers that they put in when CC version eight, but under standard functions there

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is a report set of functions and there's RPT job preview job print show error.

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We want to do a preview.

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So I'll just right click and do parameter supply.

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And I can just paste in my production orders.

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I'm putting it in double quotes because the strings in C require double quotes.

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So if you don't put that on there, it won't work.

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And basically this is the same as right clicking on our print job and choosing preview.

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So I'll right click and do compile.

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It says no errors no warnings.

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That's pretty good.

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So we'll save this.

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And then I'm going to put one other thing in here under Smart Objects there's an application window.

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And just to show you what it is, I'm going to pull it out here.

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And instead of global script, I'll do print jobs click okay.

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And then I'll do all jobs context menu.

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You'll see what that is.

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Okay.

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So we're going to save this.

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And then the name of this screen is Production Orders Report.

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We'll go back to our reports button.

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And we need to put that in here.

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So I'll highlight that.

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And then this is a picture selection dialog.

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That way I don't have to type it.

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Here's my production orders PDL.

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So basically this open screen and pop up will just show this in a pop up window.

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Just kind of make it nice.

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So let's go test it out I'll click okay save.

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And we'll just go to runtime and hit reports.

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All right.

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Here's our little report thing here.

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Here's my start menu.

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And then this just lists out all the print jobs that we have.

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And these are all generated by the system.

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You can tell because the layouts have the app.

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But if you go to user then we have this.

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And I could actually right click and print this from here.

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Or I could do a preview.

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And so here's the production report.

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Pull it from the tags.

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We can also just hit preview here.

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It's going to do the exact same thing.

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So we've got kind of a nice interface.

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Now let's just go change these.

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Now when I click in here notice it doesn't clear the field as maybe you thought it might.

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So I'm just going to do 2002 two 4 to 2003 two four.

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All right.

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And you have to hit enter.

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So I didn't hit enter on that.

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So now we have new dates.

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Let's hit preview.

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And here we've got you can see 2002 two four.

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And we've got several pages worth of data.

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All right.

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So we now have this interface where we can enter in the report data that we want and preview it or print

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it.

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In the next assignment, you'll get a chance to build your own CC screen where you can print or preview

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your report.

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So I'll see you there.