Advanced Reports Fundamentals
Advanced Reports can be used to produce reports in a variety of formats, ranging from simple text summaries to highly complex composite graphical reports.
The basic building blocks of an Advanced Report are Datasets and Templates. Datasets provide the data for the report; Templates control the layout and visual presentation of the data.
A Template is comprised of bands and the controls they contain. Through the process of publishing, a Template proceeds to a paginated report document ready for printing or exporting.
Report documents can be produced either from a specified dataset or datasets, or in an unbound mode. To create a data-aware report, it is first necessary to specify the datasets. Then, you can perform various data shaping operations and associate data-aware controls with data members.
A Template is stored separately from the data.
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