Topic Manager

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Usually in a report, each topic will need its own area that you will add comments to. The Topic Manager is used to create these database fields to save the comment data to. Keep in mind that a single topic can be used in many Report Views, but a topic should be unique within a single Report View. For example, you could create a topic called "foundations", which should only be used once in a single Report View, but you can create a hundred different Report Views, each of which can use the "foundations" topic. You would NOT have to create "foundations1", "foundations2"... "foundations100", one for each Report View.

These topic database fields can have any name you want, such as Data1, Data2, etc, or you can name them something that makes sense so that when you assign the database field to a topic node in the Report View Manager, you won't accidentally assign the same database field to more than one topic node.

Use the Add, Rename, and Delete buttons to make changes to the available topic database fields. Attempting to delete a topic that is in use will only make the topic inactive, and will appear as gray in the list. Attempting to delete an inactive topic that is still in use will give you the option to make it active once again; otherwise it will allow you to fully delete it.