Editing a Custom Report and its Properties

To edit an existing Custom Report, right-click a Custom Report and select Open. The tool with which you created the report opens.

Note: If you created the Custom Report using the HTML Report Assistant or HTML Graph Assistant, and then edited the report with the Editor, the report can only be opened and edited again using the Editor.

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Procedure: How to View and Edit Properties of a Custom Report

Select the Custom Reports folder in the My Reports tab.
Right-click the report to which you want to view or edit properties. The Properties dialog box opens.
The following image shows the Properties dialog box containing information about the date and time the report was last changed, folder location, run type, filename, description, and three check boxes, Share Report, Prompt for Parameters, and Run with OLAP.
View the report and make your edits. Click OK to save your changes.

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Reference: About Comments in the Code

When you create a procedure with graphical tools, the type of component and the information contained in it are previewed below the -* icon. The characters -* are required to identify text as a comment.

By default, comments contain the name of the procedure. This comment is not necessary for your application, and if you wish, you can delete it. You can also choose to type additional comments, For example, you may want to introduce each new line with the comment characters -*, or you may want to insert comments to describe different sections of code.