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You can override a Report Selection Criteria by adding parameters to a special section in the main configuration file. That is if a user may set a specific parameter in the report selection criteria window, it will be overwritten by that set in the main configuration file. This allows you to fix certain settings, for example the percentage mark-up in a billing report.

Each report has its own ID number, e.g. the Billing Report has an ID of 2. This corresponds to the setting in the main configuration file that you need to alter.

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

Referencemacro
Labelmain.cfg
file, located by default in
Keywordmacro
Label{app}\tim\config
Each report has its own ID number, e.g. the Billing Report has an ID of 2. This corresponds to the setting in the main configuration file that you need to alter.

Open the file using Notepad and in the 

Referencemacro
Label[Report Customisations]
section, add or amend the line Report2Extra to read:

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