Specifying format options for the Grouping Columns

You can specify format options for the Grouping Columns of a quick report.

Before you begin

You must open the Create New Quick Report wizard.

About this task

To specify Grouping Columns formatting options:

Procedure

  1. Open the Format page of the Create New Quick Report wizard.
  2. Select Grouping Columns from the tree.
  3. To change a grouping column's name, click the Header cell and specify the new text.

    The text that you specify will display as the grouping column name in the quick report. To set a multiline header you should use “_” symbol to separate lines. In the report it will be substituted by the line break character.

  4. To change the sorting order of a grouping column, click the Sort cell and select Ascending or Descending.
  5. To change the width of a grouping column, click the Width cell and specify the new width.
  6. If you have specified all the required parameters for the quick report, click Finish to close the Create New Quick Report wizard and display the quick report on the Design page of the editor where you can manually customize the look of the report.

What to do next

Next: Specifying how to display Header and Footer information