Understanding Custom Sections

Custom sections enable you to control, through event rules, the information that prints on a report. You can include business view fields, variables, and data dictionary fields in custom sections. The number of custom sections that you can add to a report is limited only by your system's performance. Custom sections are allocated and processed like any other section.

This table describes uses for custom sections:

Custom Section Usage	Description
Force page breaks.	Create a custom section with no objects and then activate the Page Break After Print option in that section.
Perform logic.	Create a custom section and add event rules to perform percent of total calculations to be used by the level-one section.
Present additional information when stated criteria is met.	Create an accounts receivable report that displays the payment history of customers. Add a custom section that presents account receivables by aging categories. Call the custom section only if a customer is delinquent. When the batch engine encounters a record that meets the past due criteria, the custom section prints. The custom section does not print for any records that do not have a past due amount.