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For Developers who write programs in IES, there is an IES system call that will dynamically turn text into a Report, without any further programming being required. On screen, we see a real IES Program that produces the Generic Tax Report. As the program logic develops, text lines are constructed and each time we have a text line ready for output, we perform the subroutine called "do.out".

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At "do.out", all we do is to add another line at the end of the dynamic array.

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And when we reach the point where we have produced all the necessary text lines, then we call the IES subroutine "dynamic.report" with 1 argument, and that argument is the dynamic array variable where we have been storing the text lines.

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Now, let us look at this example in practice, by performing the Generic Tax Report.

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The call to "dynamic.report" will always automatically produce the Report, and there is always the standard pre-run screen where the User can choose the output format. In our 1st example, we will produce HTML output.

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And this is the result. In other words, without any programming at all, just by putting some text into a variable and then calling the IES subroutine "dynamic.report", this is our result.

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The User can also choose a Text output.

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And in such case, the result changes to this format.

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For clarity, we now make it easier to see what is required. Here is a program that will produce a Report with 3 Lines. We just put the text into a variable, then we call "dynamic.report" with that variable as the argument.