Report Section Edit
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A report is split into several separate sections which are printed at different stages of the report:
- Report Header Section Printed once, when the report starts.
- Page Header Section Printed at the top of each page. This would normally contain titles and column heading labels.
- Group Header Section There can be multiple Group Header sections. The Group Header section is printed on change of a control break field. If you are printing totals by department, you would need a group header section with the department selected as the data field. It would typically contain a field control to print the control field as a section title.
- Detail Section The Detail section is printed for every record in the data source. It would contain field controls to print information from the data source.
- Group Footer Section is created in combination with a Group Header. If you are printing department totals, it would contain field controls for each of the total fields, with summary function set to 'Sum' and summary type set to 'GroupTotal'.
- Page Footer Section created in combination with a page header, it might contain field controls to print the current date and page number.
- Report Footer Section Printed at the end of the report, it might contan a line to draw off the report and confirm that the last page has been printed.
Section
- Name the name of the section. Must be unique within a report.
- Type Select one of the report section types above.
- Back Colour The back ground colour of the section.
- Height The height of the section.
- New Page Select if a new page is to be started before or after the current section.
- Can Grow If this is selected, the section will be extended to more lines when the text to be printed will not fit in the section height.
- Can Shrink If this is selected the section height will be reduced to fewer lines if the text to be printed is less.
- Visible Check this to stop the section from being printed.
- Underlay Next Check this to overprint the next section on top of this section.
- Transparent Background Check this to make objects behind the section visible.
- Keep Together Check this to prevent a page break within the section. If the section is at the bottom of a page it will start on the next page.
- Columns Number Enter the number of columns to be printed across the page. The section will be repeated in each column.
- Columns Direction Select the direction in which the columns will be printed: down then across the page, or across then down.
Grouping
Defines the control break information for group headers:
Data Field the name of the data field which will provide the control breaks The group header will be printed when the data field value changes.
Group Keep Together You can request that the group header be kept with all detail lines within the group, or just the first detail line when a page break occurs within the section bounded by the group header and footer.
Repeat Style Specifies if the group header is to be repeated on every page, every column, or every line, or not at all.
Column Layout Determines whether a group header section should use the same column layout of its detail section
Controls
Lists the controls within the section.
- New creates a new control
- Edit changes the current selected control
- Delete deletes the current selected control
When you select a control for edit, or add a new control, the Report Control Edit form is displayed.