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Display Columns - Screen Overview

Display Columns

Screen Code: gllprtci

To identify what columns you want to see in your report.

Navigation Tip: General Ledger >> Financial Reports >> Base Financial Statements >> Work with Display Formats >> Click any Format >> Click Display Columns.

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It has the following parameters:


Field


Description

Column

Determines sequence of the column.


Column Heading

Column Heading is the identifier for each column in the report. Usage of the “^” sign in the Column Heading tells the Column Heading to wrap in the report.


Result Description


Serves as a comment field if we want to add a note to ourselves.


Fund number


One can also define what fund you want in the column. The default value is 0, which indicates all funds.

Column Formulas

This section is used to define what data we want to display in a column. Definition of a column:


Field


Description

Field type


Database - Value to be displayed in the report is pulled from the database.
Constants - Constants are values or numbers typically used in a formula when you want to multiply by 1 or divide by 100 or for example increase all amounts by 3%.


Field value


You can pull information from GL and Budget Projections in your report. There are 6 different types of data that can be reported on:
- Transaction Amount - Actual Amount. This data resides in GL.
- Encumbrance Amount - Amount of unpaid PO’s. This data resides in GL.
- Adopted Budget Amount - Amount of the original budget without amendments. This data resides in GL.
- Revised Budget Amount -Amount of budget including amendments. This data resides in GL.
- Revised Budget Tran Amount - Amount of the amendments. This data resides in GL.
- Requested Budget Amount - Amount of the budget from the budget module. This data resides in the Budget application.


Operation


These are mathematical operators with values as below: Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, and Percent.


Parenthesis


Open and Close Parenthesis to use in the formula along with the operations listed above


From period


The format of the period is mm/yyyy.
To run the report for any given fiscal year you can provide a numeric representation of the year that we are referring to.
“-0” represents the current year.
“-1” represents last year.
“-2” represents two prior years.
Note that the year is in relation to the period for which you ran the report. E.g. From period: 10/-1, this would mean that if you ran the report in 2021, then the data would be pulled from October 2020.


To period


The format of the period is mm/yyyy.
To run the report for any given fiscal year you can provide a numeric representation of the year as described above.

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