Banded reports and groups

Designer reports are divided into horizontal bands. The bands in a report are Undisplayed Content, Title, Page Header, Header, Detail, Summary, and Page Footer. Add columns, labels, images, buttons, rectangles, subreports, charts, and groups to a band using the report content panel. You can specify the band height, but the band width is always restricted to the width of the report. Band height is controlled on the Page Layout property.

To preview the report, click the Results button. The applicable data is displayed to each area. To return to the Layout mode to make changes to the report, click the Layout button.

Note: You can use the keyboard shortcut Shift + D to toggle between the Layout and Results modes.

This list shows the display behaviors of each band:

  • The Undisplayed Content band is part of the report query, but is not rendered on the report.
  • The Title and Summary bands are displayed at the beginning and end of the report.
  • The Page Header band shows at the top of each page.
  • The Header band is rendered at the beginning of each detail column.
  • The Detail band is repeated for every record in the result set.
  • The Page Footer band is displayed at the bottom of each page.

Groups are used in conjunction with the Detail band to report multi-level information. The Group Header and Group Footer bands provide automatic grouping and summaries based on sort order.