PAGE HEADER
Defines the printing commands for the top of all pages of a report.
This control block is executed whenever a new page is added to the report. The PAGE
HEADER
control block specifies the action that the runtime takes before it begins
processing each page of the report. It can specify what information, if any, appears at the
top of each new page of output from the report.
The TOP MARGIN
specification (in the OUTPUT
section) affects how
many blank lines appear above the output produced by statements in the PAGE HEADER
control block.
You can use the PAGENO
operator
in a PRINT
statement within a
PAGE HEADER
control block to automatically display the current page number at
the top of every page.
The FIRST PAGE HEADER
control block overrides this control block on the first page of a report.
New group values can appear in the PAGE HEADER
control block when this control
block is executed after a simultaneous end-of-group and end-of-page situation.
The runtime system delays the processing of the PAGE HEADER
control block until
it encounters the first PRINT
, SKIP
, or NEED
statement in the ON EVERY ROW
, BEFORE GROUP OF
, or AFTER
GROUP OF
control block. This order guarantees that any group columns printed in the
PAGE HEADER
control block have the same values as the columns printed in the
ON EVERY ROW
control block.
The restrictions that apply to FIRST PAGE HEADER
also
apply to PAGE HEADER
.