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Report Builder
User’s Guide
The Report Builder Main Window
When you start Report Builder, the window in Figure 1–5 opens.
Figure 1–5: Report Builder Main Window
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Figure 1–6 shows how the Report Builder main window appears with a report definition open.
Figure 1–6: Main Window with Report Definition
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The Report Builder main window has the following user interface elements:
- Title Bar — Displays the report name.
- Menu Bar — Provides access to the menu options. See the "Menu Bar" section for a description of each option.
- Tool Bar — Contains buttons that perform many of the actions available from the menu bar.
- Format Bar — Provides quick access to fonts, styles, effects, and alignment options.
- Horizontal and Vertical Rulers — Help you align fields and text in a report.
- Band Lines — Control the placement of data in a report. See the "Bands and Band Lines" section for a complete description of the different types of band lines.
- Band Labels — Identify the band type.
- Band Line Status Area — Indicates whether the band line is a fixed height and whether it prints only when a specified condition is met. If a band line is a fixed height, up and down arrows appear in the status area. If you specify a condition upon which to print a band line, a question mark appears in the status area.
- Band Area — Identifies the type of each band line on the layout.
- Layout Area — Indicates area where you create a report layout. The report layout is the schematic representation of the report that contains the fields, text, and any lines, rectangles, or images that will appear in the report.
- Status Bar — Displays information about the currently highlighted field.
- Cursor Locator — Identifies the position of the edit cursor in the layout.
- Horizontal and Vertical Scroll Bars — Allows scrolling to the components of the band and layout areas.
The following sections describe some of the Report Builder window features in more detail.
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