Specifications

Working in the Report painter
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Understanding the Report painter Design view
For most presentation styles, the Report painter Design view is divided into
areas called bands. Each band corresponds to a section of the displayed report.
reports with these presentation styles are divided into four bands: header,
detail, summary, and footer. Each band is identified by a bar containing the
name of the band above the bar and an Arrow pointing to the band.
These bands can contain any information you want, including text, drawing
controls, graphs, and computed fields containing aggregate totals.
The following picture shows the Design view for a tabular report.
Table 6-1: Bands in the Report painter Design view
The header band
The header band contains heading information that is displayed at the top of
every screen or page. The presentation style determines the contents of the
header band:
• If the presentation style is Tabular, Grid, or N-Up, the headings defined for
the columns in the Database painter display in the header band and the
columns display on a single line across the detail band
• If the presentation style is Freeform, the header band is empty and labels
display in the detail band next to each column
Band Used to display
Header Information at the top of every screen or page, such as the name of the
report or current date
Detail Data from the database or other data source
Summary Summary information that displays after all the data, such as totals and
counts
Footer Information displayed at the bottom of every page or screen, such as
page number and page count