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The topmost all-embracing report element is the report itself.
Report
Although, the report is one of the most important elements, it doesn't have many customizable properties. It's a special visual element because most of the characteristic properties for visual elements, size and position, are missing.
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Resources Path
Specifies where the resource engine should look for localization files, files containing translations for the languages you want to support.
Bands
The next hierarchical level of the visual elements are the toplevel bands.
Size Properties
Minimum Size
This is the smallest size an element can have. For bands this size is automatically adjusted to include all contained elements. This is the size mostly set by the designer and is automatically set by placing and resizing elements visually. Most of the time it is perfectly fine to just use this size. The other sizes discussed below are for advanced purposes only.
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Show in Layout GUI
Whether to show the band in the report definition area. This does not have any effect on the printed report. You can use this to hide bands you don't use to not clutter the user interface.
Page Header Band
The page header band, when not empty, is printed at the top of each page.
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Display on Last Page
Whether to print the page header on the last page or not.
Report Header Band
The report header band, when not empty, is printed once when the report starts but after the page header band.
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Page Break After
Indicates whether to insert a pagebreak just after the header is printed.
Item Band
Page Break Before
Indicates whether to insert a pagebreak before every line. This ensures that only one row is printed per page.
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Row Banding
This allows alternate background colors to be specified when items are printed. Select the Items band to access row banding.
Report Footer Band
The report footer band, when not empty, is printed once when the report ends just before the last page footer is printed.
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Page Break After
Indicates whether to insert a pagebreak after the footer is printed.
Page Footer Band
The page footer band, when not empty, is printed at the bottom of each page.
Display on First Page
Whether to print the page header on the first page or not.
Display on Last Page
Whether to print the page header on the last page or not.
Watermark Band
The watermark band is printed on the background of every page. You can use it to embed a company logo or to mark a report as draft.
Page Break Before
Has no effect.
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Page Break After
Has no effect.
Text Elements
A text element is an element that prints some kind of static text or dynamic text from a dataset on the report. Text elements used to print dynamic values from a dataset have the suffix Field .
Common Properties
Name
The name or identifier of this report element. It is mainly used to reference fields from functions and is not required for basic reports.
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