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CHAPTER 5
Defining Reports
About this chapter
The reports you create are centered around your organization’s data. This
chapter describes how to define reports to display the data.
Contents
About reports
Reports provide many ways for you to present data. You might want a
tabular report with rows and columns of information. Sometimes a graph
or a crosstab is a better way to present the data.
Reports can also be mailing labels or many reports nested together on the
same page. Freeform reports let you place text, data, lines, boxes, and
pictures anywhere you want.
Reports versus
DataWindow objects
Reports are the same as the DataWindow objects that PowerBuilder users
can create in the PowerBuilder DataWindow painter, except that they
cannot be updated. When you create a report in the Report painter, you are
actually creating a nonupdatable DataWindow object.
Topic Page
About reports 143
Choosing a presentation style 144
Building a report 153
Selecting a data source 154
Using Quick Select 156
Using SQL Select 165
Using Query 180
Using External 180
Using Stored Procedure 182
Choosing report-wide options 184
Generating and saving a report 185
Defining queries 188
What's next 190