Elliott Version 8.6
Using Markdown Language in Freeform Notes
Released: 3/17/2025 Versions: Elliott V8.6 and Higher Background Some exciting new Elliott technology is coming. One part of this new technology will make use of existing Elliott Notes, but the content will be presented in a richer format. Beginning ...
An Example of DDF Files in DATA Folder Causing Report Desk or Power Search Issue
Release Date: 03/14/2025 Version: 8.6 & Up Q - When I tried to print a UDR report (i.e., AP Distribution History Report) from company # 98, I got the following error message: Cannot find definition of table APDSTHST in DDFs. You probably are using ...
How to Investigate or Debug Report Desk Problem by Using SQL Statement
Released Date: 1/25/2025 Version: 8.6 & Higher Report Desk is based on the PSQL relational engine. It sends a SQL statement to the PSQL engine to retrieve data. Sometimes, you don't get the result back as you expected, so what next? For example, when ...
Report Desk: Record Thresholds
Release date: 4/28/23 Version: 8.6 Background Report Desk reports can be CPU intensive and potentially run for a long time, depending on the complexity of the report, the output format and the number of records involved. Accordingly, when a user runs ...
Report Desk: How Font Is Determined
Release Date: TBA Version 8.6 At this moment, there are three different sources to determine the font to be used in Elliott V8.6 Report Desk: EL860.CFG - Elliott Global Configuration File Windows Registry in ...
How to Use DebugLogLevel Registry Value to Debug Report Desk Issues
Release Date: TBA Version 8.6 Since Report Desk is a brand new feature of Elliott V8.5, you may encounter a problem with it. If you do, a Netcellent support representative may ask you to turn on the debugging of Report Desk so a log file can be ...
Report Desk: Running Reports
Release Date: 4/28/23 Version 8.6 Report Desk provides a powerful developing environment for Netcellent to deliver modern reports with rich elements of proportional spacing fonts, graphics, shading and line drawing. It allows us to output reports to ...
Report Desk: Customizing Reports
Release Date: 4/28/23 Version: 8.6 Customizing Reports Once a user has been given rights to modify Elliott Report Desk User Design Reports (UDR), they will have access to two additional buttons on the report parameter screens. SQL: This button will ...
Report Desk: Font, Margin and Timeout Overrides
Released: TBA Version 8.6 Most of the time, the default Report Desk settings (located in EL860.Cfg and maintained by EL860CF.Exe) will work for your reports. But certain reports may need a special font, or a broader point size range, or different ...
Report Desk: Variables in Title and Column Headings
Release Date: TBA Version: 8.6 Elliott allows for certain customization of the product. For example, your company may use the Item Size file to specify Colors instead of something else. In order to make this work well, you may need to insert a ...
Report Desk: Report Footer
Release Date: 4/28/23 Version: 8.6 The purpose of report footers in User Defined Reports is to provide the ability to report aggregate information (sum, average, min, max, etc.) for the report. For example, in a Salesman list, a report footer can ...
Report Desk: Overriding Standard Reports
Release date: 4/28/23 Version: 8.6 Generally speaking, Report Desk report configuration is maintained by NETcellent and delivered in EL860S.Cfg. Customers should never modify this file, as it is overlayed with the latest version from NETcellent ...
Report Desk: Groups
Release Date: 4/28/23 Version: 8.6 Groups Overview Data in a report can be sorted and organized with one or more groups subdividing the information. Groups can include one or more Group Header lines, where information about the group, particularly ...
Report Desk: Global Variables, Parameters and Embedded Functions
Release Date: TBA Version 8.6 Using Global Variables Sometimes it is necessary to access the fields in Elliott's control files, like NSCTLFIL and IMCTLFIL, in order to produce the desired report. For example, in reports that have item cost data, you ...
Report Desk: CheckBoxes
Release Date: 4/28/23 Version 8.6 When to Use a CheckBox Instead of a Column Sometimes, you may want to give the user a Yes-or-No option to include some information in a report. For example, you might want to generally exclude records with a balance ...
Report Desk: Optional File Input Parameter
Release Date: TBA Elliott v8.6 This article describes how to allow the user to specify an input file of values instead of entering a comma-separated list of values for an input parameter with an "IN" or "NOT IN" Operator. Begin by setting the ...
Report Desk: Subreports
Release date: 4/28/23 Version 8.6 When to Use Subreports Sometimes there is information related to a detail line in a report that can be obtained from a previously-defined separate report -- a subreport that is intended to be embedded in other ...
Report Desk: Telerik Functions
Release Date: 4/28/23 Elliott V8.6 Telerik Functions in Report Desk In addition to the Aggregate functions that are automatically mapped to Telerik functions in Group Headers and Footers and Report Footers, you may also use built-in Telerik functions ...
Report Desk: Column Formatting
Release Date: 4/28/23 Elliott Version 8.6 Changing Column Format When you are in the Report Desk designer and you drag a column one of the Line grids, a default column format will appear. You may change the format of the column to another type by ...
Report Desk: Entering Date Parameters
Release Date: 4/28/23 Elliott Version: 8.6 Entering Dates Report Desk input parameters that represent dates can be entered in two ways: By using the drop-down calendar --dates can be selected by browsing through the calendar and selecting one. By ...
Elliott V8.6 Configuration Utility (EL860CF.EXE)
Configuring Elliott V8.6 After installing Elliott V8.6 for the first time, you will need to make some configuration changes. If this is the first time you have installed Elliott V8.6, the system will detect that the EL860.CFG file does not exist in ...
Deferred and PostOffice Processing in Elliott V8.6
Version 8.6 Release Date: 4/28/23 Revised: 6/26/23 Overview Elliott V8.6 brings the following changes to Deferred Processing and PostOffice Processing: You no longer can specify Deferred Processing with any other output option. PDF PostOffice ...
Feature: Manual Date Entry in Attribute Maintenance
Elliott Version: 8.6 Released: 4/28/23 Overview When entering a date in Attribute Maintenance, you previously had to use the calendar. Now, we also are allowing free-form entry of dates: Free-Form Date Entry U.S. Date Format Now it is possible to ...
Report Desk: Calculating Percentage
Elliott V8.6 Released: 4/28/23 Calculating Percentage When you want to display a percentage on a report, you most likely will use a format like "N0" or "N1" or "N2," depending on the number of decimals you require. Also, you will need to create a ...
Report Desk Company DSN missing. Ask your administrator to run EL860CF
Release Date: 6/26/20 Version: 8.6 & Up Q - When I try to run a report in Elliott 8.6, I receive the following message: "Report Desk Company DSN missing. Ask your administrator to run EL860CF." See sample screen below: What should I do? A - Report ...
How to Use EL860DB.EXE Utility to Create PSQL Databases
Release Date: 4/28/23 Version: Elliott 8.6 Elliott 8.6 includes features -- Report Desk for example -- that require PSQL relational data access. In the past, PSQL databases were created manually by users. To make it easy to create PSQL databases, the ...
Report Desk: Managing Custom Reports
Release Date: 4/28/23 Version: Elliott 8.6 Background NETcellent and other developers create and maintain all Report Desk templates, in order to make sure the SELECT statements for the reports are as efficient as possible. When an Elliott customer ...
Report Desk: Multiple Lines
Release Date: 4/28/23 Version: 8.6 Overview In many cases, there will be more information needed for a body line (or group header, footer, etc.) than can fit within a single line. Report Desk provides the ability to specify multiple lines in those ...
Report Desk: Performance Inquiry
Release Date: 4/28/23 Version: 8.6 Background Each time a Report Desk report is executed, a log record is added to a table in the database to record the details of that execution. In particular, the execution times for different parts of the process ...
Feature - Document Notes
Release Date: 4/28/23 Version: Elliott 8.6 Introduction Elliott users are familiar with the availability of Notes in many places in Elliott. Whenever a particular record is being processed (a customer, a sales order, etc.), pressing F6 will bring up ...
Report Desk: Setup and Configuration
Release Date: 4/28/23 Version: 8.6 Report Desk provides a powerful developing environment for Netcellent to deliver modern reports with rich elements of proportionally spaced fonts, graphics and line drawing. It allows us to output reports to PDF, ...
Report Desk: Documentation Roadmap
Release Date: 4/28/23 Version: 8.6 Setup and Configuration The following articles explain initial setup and ongoing maintenance of Report Desk: Report Desk: Setup and Configuration : Initial installation and ongoing maintenance. Elliott V8.6 ...
Report Desk: Input Constants
Release Date: TBA Version: 8.6 Background Occasionally a report will need the user to enter a parameter input value that does not get used in a WHERE phrase, but may be used in a CASE statement in a function. These input parameters are referred to as ...
Feature - Change Order, Quote and RMA Acknowledgement Email Recipients Similar to PDF PostOffice
Release Date: 12/19/2020 Version: 8.6 Before Elliott 8.6, the Order, Quote and RMA Acknowledgement Email Recipients were determined by the following logic: All eContacts on the order will receive acknowledgement emails. If there is/are eContact(s) in ...
Why Are Document Notes Disabled in Many Areas While Enabled in Others?
Release Date: 02/22/21 Version: 8.6 & Up Q - In Elliott V8.6, there's a new feature called "Document Notes." It is enabled when the user gets into an Elliott task before bringing up any records that enable the Notes feature. For example, in Customer ...
Report Desk: Running & Designing Reports Basics
Release Date: 03/24/2021 Revised: 08/30/2021 Version: 8.6 & Up Report Desk is a new report-developing platform for Elliott Business Software. It is based on the PSQL relational engine accessing the Elliott database, which has the potential to make ...
Report Desk: Report Documentation
Release Date: 6/8/2021 Elliott Version: 8.6 & Up Displaying Report Documentation There are two places from which you can view the available documentation for a report: From the list of reports: From the Report Desk Input Parameters screen: The Report ...
Report Desk: Enforced Destinations
Release Date: 9/22/2022 Elliott Versions: V8.6 and Up Background Like Elliott legacy reports, designated Supervisor users are able to specify Disk and/or Email output settings that all other Elliott users are restricted to. This is especially useful ...
Report Desk: Understanding SumValuesInGroup Aggregates
Release Date: 10/18/2022 Elliott Version: 8.6 and Higher Background The Sum aggregate is useful for calculating the sum of a value in all report rows. For example, a detail line in a report might contain a column for Quantity On Hand. You might use ...
Elliott 8.6 Requirements and Features Compatibility
Release Date: 11/08/2022 Version: 8.6 Introduction Unlike prior versions, Elliott 8.6 starts using the PSQL relational database engine to support features like Report Desk, PowerSearch, and Avalara. If you are thinking of using Elliott 8.6, this ...
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