The Report Designer offers a variety of dynamic tools for constructing the report you want to create with all of the components you want it to contain. Understanding how these components perform and how they integrate with Report section elements is fundamental to building a successful report.
Report pages are structured areas, or bands, of information. Each band contains a different report component and can be customized to include other report elements such as graphic objects, predefined fields, computed fields, charts, and pivot tables.
A components of the report are:
Body—Contains one or more tables whose contents are based on the items listed in the Table Dimensions and Table Facts panes of the data layout. Every report has a body that holds a table of data. Tables can be based on the same or different results sets within the document.
Report Group Headers—Categorize data into repeating collections of records organized according to the header band.
Report Header/Footer—Fully customizable summary bands of information. Report headers print only on the very first page of the report. Report footers print only on the very last page.
Page Header/Footer—Contain data that is repeated on every page, such as page numbers. These bands are also fully customizable.