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bottom of the selected column. See Calculating a percentage and Selecting
top or bottom N groups or percentages .
What information should be flagged on the report?
You may want to call attention to some data by flagging it on the report. For
example, non-moving inventory items are often flagged on inventory reports
so they can be given special attention. You might want to flag each item that
has shown no activity during the last month, during the last three months, or
during some other defined period. To flag information, identify it and any
conditions that will trigger the flagging.
How do you want information flagged?
You may want to flag items with an asterisk or some other symbol, or you
may want a word to appear as a flag. In any case, you should write out
flagging instructions so they are handy.
Crystal Reports gives you the opportunity to underline report elements, and
change the font type, size, or color used for specific report items. It allows
you to put borders around items and to draw lines and boxes (to break the
report into sections), set off headings, and so on. All of these formatting tools
can be used to highlight key data on a report. See Formatting.
Determining printing area characteristics
Each report area has its own printing characteristics. It is important to
understand these characteristics because they affect when and how often
different report objects get printed.
In what order will the areas print on the report?
Areas print in the order they appear on the Design tab (top to bottom). If
there is more than one section in an area, the sections print in the order they
appear. For example, if you have three Report Header sections, all three of
those sections will print, in order, before the section(s) in the Page Header
area begin to print.
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Report Design Concepts
Deciding on the content of the report