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User’s Guide
Creating Bands
To create a new band, you simply create one or more band lines of the desired types. Follow these steps to create a band line:
- Choose Create
Band Line, press F11, or right-click in the band area and choose Band Line. The Create Band Line dialog box appears:
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- In the Number To Create fill-in field, specify the number of lines you want to insert in the band area. The default is 1.
- Choose the type of band line you want to insert. There are two options:
- Choose the Another Record Line radio button if you want to insert a band line of the same type as the one currently selected. Type indicates which type of band line you have currently selected. Then choose Above Current Line or Below Current Line to specify the line location.
- Choose the Different Type radio button if you want to insert a different band line type. Then select the type of band line you want to create from the drop-down list. Report Builder inserts the band line after the last existing band line of the selected type.
The drop-down list displays the available band types. GH and GF represent the group headers and group footers. Notice that there are multiple group header and footer options. The numbers preceding the group header and group footer options correspond to the eight levels of grouping available when you select the fields by which you group data. See "Sorting and Grouping Data," for an explanation of grouping fields.
- Choose OK. Report Builder inserts the specified number of lines of the specified type in the appropriate place on the layout.
Notice that the bands appear on the layout in the order described in the "Understanding Bands and Band Lines" section.
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