Working with reports

The Report Designer design page has two distinct modes for managing records and reports.

When Report Designer is started, the Design records mode is selected allowing you to design individual records. The Design reports mode allows you manage reports, and associate records with reports

In both modes, a new record can be added by selecting either Relative Record or Absolute Record in the Palette and then clicking anywhere in the design area. Alternatively, palette items can be dragged onto the design area.

Records are created with the name RECORDn where n is a sequential number. Type over the name in the Source tab to give your record a meaningful name. New records are automatically added to a currently active report.

To define a new report, press the New button beside the list of reports. This creates a new report with the name Untitled. Change the name to something meaningful by typing over the default name and pressing either the Apply button or the Enter key.

After defining a report, you can add records to the report to simulate which records will be displayed together when the application runs. To add an existing record to a report, select the Records tab, select the desired record in the Available list and press the Add button. This adds a new instance of the record to the report. Repeat the above steps to add additional records. If a report has no records, then the Add all button can be used to create one new instance of each record for the report. To remove a record, select it in the list of Included records and press the Remove button.


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