Specifications

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Creating a Basic Banded Report
Before creating the complete report above, a simple Banded Report of the Employees
table (see figure below) will first be created to enable a new user to quickly become
familiar with the process of creating a basic Banded Report. This report will then be
enhanced to create the report shown above.
Figure 37 – The simple Banded Report
Select the Report Type
Begin by creating a new report using the same method used for QuickView and CSV
reports, but this time select “Banded” and name it “Example Banded Report”. Then, within
the Edit Report dialog box, click the Design button to launch the Banded Report Wizard as
shown in the figure below.
Figure 38 – Selecting the Banded Report Type
For this example, click the “List Report” image, then click Next which brings up the
following screen in which you specify which fields are to be included within the report.
The DataBlock form used for this
example.
One or more departments can be selected when
executing the report.
Figure 39 – DataBlock form for this
example.
The DataBlock form is created by the DataBlock
Designer.