The Format Order of Sections property enables you to specify the order in which the three sections of a report (Header, Main, and Trailer) are formatted.
Applies to |
Reports |
Values |
List containing all possible combinations of format order: Header-Main-Trailer |
Default |
Header, Main, Trailer |
Required/Optional |
Optional |
If the layout of a section is empty, it will be ignored and formatting will proceed with the next section.
If the SRW.SET_FORMAT_ORDER
built-in procedure is defined, it overrides the Format Order of Sections
property setting.
When you save a report as JSP, HTML, or XML, the value of this property
is saved as part of the report definition with the <formatOrder>
attribute of the <layout>
tag. The attribute may have
any one of the following values:
Header-Main-Trailer
Header-Trailer-Main
Main-Header-Trailer
Main-Trailer-Header
Trailer-Header-Main
Trailer-Main-Header
For example:
<layout direction="leftToRight"
formatOrder="Main-Trailer-Header"/>
About report sectioning and sections
"Building a Paper Report with a Simple Table of Contents and Index" and "Building a Paper Report with a Multilevel Table of Contents" chapters in the Oracle Reports Building Reports manual.
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