Overriding report parameters

Each report has its own parameters, most of which are common to all reports

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and these are normally set using the Report Selection Criteria window

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You can override a Report Selection Criteria by adding parameters to a special section . However, you can override these parameters by modifying the settings in the main configuration file. That is if

If a user may set sets a specific parameter in the report selection criteria

As an example, we can set the percentage mark-up in every Billing Report to 50% and a surcharge of £1.00. To apply these settings, you need to edit the 

Open the the 

Report2Extra = &markup=50&surcharge=1.00

In this instancethe example above, when a billing report (ID = 2) Billing Report is run, these extra settings are forced upon the reporting engine and override any values that the user has selected.