Holly, Holly, Holly,
I know how to change the Format Options once I have a Report open.
The issue is, as soon as I select another report command, it reopens the Report Browser and any of those settings I changed in the Format Options dialog box revert back to an apparent fixed, predetermined set of default formats and precisions.
What I am looking for is a way to save a set of these as a predefined Default or even better, as sets of preferences. The ideal function would be that when we set a report as a default for a particular command, that we can also specify a set of Format Options for that report.
I know that in any report, it is possible to code fixed precision and other formats to prevent the Format Options from changing them, and have done that for certain reports. But sometimes the "normal" settings may need to be changed for a particular workflow, so it is usually best that fixed precision settings be limited to a few very specific situations.
It's just not very efficient to have to reset the Format Options every time a report is run. This is one big issue I have in the Phase out of InRoads towards Open Roads. Setting up and saving preferences is one way to increase efficiency in InRoads. Most commands have more than one way of being used and to meet those usages, setting up specific preferences makes it easy for users and companies to get uniform output and save time. So far, it seems as Open Roads progresses, we are loosing the ability to setup groups of settings as preferences allow.