Provides numerous topics to fill in detailed business and technical information for the design and development of a report.

Within the document you can explain the purpose of the report, the development reason, and the report details, including the intended audience, who can run the report, frequency, report input parameters (parameter, input data type, and text input), report fields (field name, description, database or table source, calculated field, the formulas and or functions), group field information, sort order, page header and footer contents.

The Report Design Template contains the following topics:

	The application or product name
	The product or system overview
	The reason for the redesign or new product development
	Report name and development reason for content of report
	Frequency of report and security/accessibility
	Where is the report run from?
	Any assumptions, dependencies or constraints on the design.

The following parameters are identified for the report:

  Risks
  List of stakeholders
  Security restrictions.

The template provides easy-to-fill tables to define the following parameters for each report:

Input parameters	Input data types & specific text to appear on report
Calculations	Define any calculations or formulas
Report fields on report	Description   Database of table data derived from   Field result based on calculation       (yes/no)?   Describe formula or calculation
Group field information	Description of grouping   Print group name in header/footer?
Sort order information	Report sort fields   Description of sort fields   How is sort performed?
Report/Page header and footer	Description of report and page headers and footers
Report sample	Provide sample of report format

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