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About layout defaulting

When you select one of the default layout styles in the Report Wizard, Reports Builder creates the necessary layout objects, based upon the report’s data model. For example, if you want to build a mailing label report and have defined an appropriate data model, simply choose the mailing label default style. Reports Builder automatically creates the report’s layout objects and displays them in the Layout Model view. You can completely customize any default layout you create. You can cut, copy, paste, move, resize, and edit each layout object that Reports Builder generates for you.

Layout defaulting is governed by the following rules:

Reports Builder defaults report layout according to the following rules:

  1. Unless otherwise noted, a group with a Print Direction of Across defaults identically to a group with a Print Direction of Down, except that the default format is transposed.   To quickly determine the defaulting of an Across group, do the following:

  2. In form letter reports, all default fields are hidden, and have a Horizontal Elasticity property setting of Variable and a Vertical Elasticity property setting of Fixed.   In all other reports, all default fields have a Horizontal Elasticity and Vertical Elasticity property setting of Fixed.

    Exception:   For tabular, form-like, group left/above, and matrix reports, the default for CHAR (if you reduce the default width) and LONG fields have a Horizontal Elasticity property setting of Fixed and a Vertical Elasticity property setting of Varia ble.   As a result, all of the field's value will be displayed, instead of truncated, by word-wrapping any data to the next lines.

    Caution:   For form letter and mailing label reports, the default for CHAR (if you reduce the default width) and LONG fields have a Horizontal Elasticity and Vertical Elasticity property setting of Fixed.   As a result, the field value will be truncated if the size of the data is greater than the size of the field.

  3. Summaries that are owned by the report, not by a group, are allowed in all report layout styles.   They are all formatted in the following way:

  4. If the layout style is tabular, group left/above, or matrix, a summary is defaulted like a database column if the column it summarizes is not selected.   Otherwise, a summary is defaulted like summaries (that is, appearing inside the M_groupname_FTR frames).

  5. If the layout style is tabular, group left/above, or matrix, Reports Builder places one summary type per line, in the   following order:

  6. If the layout style is tabular, group left/above, or matrix, the summary label will appear to the far-left of the group footer frame (M_groupname_FTR).   If there is not room for the full label, the label will be truncated.

See also

About layout objects

Creating a default layout for a report

Creating a default layout for a section

Print Direction property

Horizontal Elasticity property

Vertical Elasticity property