Design How-To

General design
These topics describe some common features of reports and how to do them.

Print headers and footers
A MiniPage or PageRoot in your Report Design document defines how the content is to be laid out on the report page. Headers and Footers can be defined for the report pages, which can depend on the relative position of the page in the overall report.

Print group totals and report totals

Print totals at the beginning of a report
You can print aggregate values before the first detail row is printed.

Print a Layout-dependent reference (InfoNodes)
InfoNodes allow you to print a value on the report that depends on the paged stream resulting from the report layout.

Specify different first and last pages
Use MiniPage containers to specify different first and last pages.

Print an invoice page number instead of the physical page number
Print an invoice page number instead of the physical page number.

Design Documents for preprinted forms
A simple drag and drop of the report elements will invoke the Positioning method, which allows you to place an element in the desired location on the form.

Design labels
For a report application that prints out labels, the report design document (.4rp) is the size of a single label.

Design address labels
Design for a label that may contain three to five lines, depending on the data record.

Modify an object's borders, margins, or padding
Any box object on a report design document can have margins, borders, and padding.

Use hyperlinks in a report
Use the id and href properties to add hyperlink functionality to a report.

Some tips for legacy report designers

Backside printing
You can specify that something print on the back side of each report page.

Debugging your Report Design Document
Tips to help you debug issues you may have with your report design.