Fixed pages of a visual report are single pages with unique
elements that can be inserted in the visual report. Fixed pages can
be used for example as cover pages, chapter beginning pages, special
graphic pages, or a report closing page.
About this task
A visual report fixed page is divided into the following
sections:
- PageHeading section describes what appears
at the top of the fixed page.
- Fixed1 section describes what appears in
the first fixed section of the page.
- Fixed2 section describes what appears in
the second fixed section of the page.
- PageFooting section describes what appears
at the bottom of the fixed page.
The process of designing each section of a fixed page is the
same for each section. You can create as many fixed pages as your
report requires. You specify where the pages will appear in the report
using the property FixedPages that is available
for each of the main page sections.
To create a fixed page for
your visual report:
Procedure
- When you create a new visual report object, you automatically
get a folder in the Project Explorer that can
be used to design your first fixed page. You can however create as
many fixed pages as is required by your report. To create additional
fixed pages, right-click the Fixed Pages node
from the Project Explorer view. Select Insert
Fixed Page from the pop-up menu. The New Fixed
Page wizard opens. Specify a unique name for this fixed
page in the Fixed page name field. Click Finish.
The Project Explorer view lists the new fixed
page under the Fixed Pages node in the tree.
- Select which section you will be designing in one of the
following ways:
- From the Project Explorer tree, click the
folder for the section of the fixed page that you want to design.
- In the Design mode, the editor window is divided into multiple
sections each labeled and associated with a section of the fixed page.
Click the section that you want to design.
- In each section of the fixed page, you can insert design
elements that identify what will be included in that section of the
page. You choose the design elements from the Palette view.
Select the objects that you want to insert. Then click the section
of the fixed page where you want to place the object.
- The properties of each section of the fixed page and the
properties of each object that you can insert in the report are displayed
in the Properties view. You can modify the
properties of each section of the fixed page and the properties of
each object in the Properties view. The properties
of some of the fixed page sections and objects can also be changed
in the editor window.
- Specify where to insert the fixed page in the main report
using the property FixedPages that is available
for each of the main page sections. If you specify a FixedPages property
in the:
- Report header section: the fixed page will appear as the cover
page of the report.
- Page header section: the fixed page will appear before the highest
level break.
- Detail header section: the fixed page will appear before the detail
level break.
- Detail footer section: the fixed page will appear before the detail
level break.
- Page footer section: the fixed page will appear after the highest
level break.
- Report footer section: the fixed page will appear as the last
page of the report.
- You can view your fixed page at any time during the design
phase. Click the Preview tab in the editor
window to display the report in preview mode. To return to the Canvas
mode, select the Design tab.