The Report Design window
Use the Report Design window to create a Report Design document.
The Report Design document (4rp) defines the report page, including the report data and the report elements for organizing and displaying this data.
When creating a new report, you can begin with:
- An empty report.
- A list report that has a basic structure already in place.
- A report template. See Create a report from an existing template.
- The work area- main window of the report. When you open a report, this area contains the report page.
- Structure View - a tree of the report containers and their contents.
- Properties View - a list of the properties for a selected report element. In addition to literal values, expressions can be used to change the value of report elements properties.
- Data View - a list of the data objects that are available for the report.
- Toolbox - a list of the containers that are available.
- The Output view - display of messages written to standard output.
- The Document Errors view - a list of errors in the opened report design document or template.
- The Tasks view - a task manager showing running applications.
Note: Metadata
for the report design document can be stored in the properties of the report node.