This part introduces you to the many styles of reports available in InfoMaker and describes how to create and work with reports.
Table of Contents
- Defining Reports
- Enhancing Reports
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- Working in the Report painter
- Using the Preview view of a report
- Saving data in an external file
- Modifying general report properties
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- Changing the report style
- Setting colors in a report
- Setting gradients and background pictures in a report
- Setting transparency properties for a report
- Specifying properties of a grid report
- Specifying pointers for a report
- Defining print specifications for a report
- Modifying text in a report
- Naming controls in a report
- Using borders in a report
- Specifying variable-height bands in a report
- Modifying the data source of a report
- Storing data in a report using the Data view
- Retrieving data
- Working with Controls in Reports
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- Adding controls to a report
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- Adding columns to a report
- Adding text to a report
- Adding drawing controls to a report
- Adding a group box to a report
- Adding pictures to a report
- Adding computed fields to a report
- Adding buttons to a report
- Adding graphs to a report
- Adding InkPicture controls to a report
- Adding OLE controls to a report
- Adding reports to a report
- Adding table blob controls to a report
- Adding tooltips to a DataWindow control
- Reorganizing controls in a report
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- Displaying boundaries for controls in a report
- Using the grid and the ruler in a report
- Deleting controls in a report
- Moving controls in a report
- Copying controls in a report
- Resizing controls in a report
- Aligning controls in a report
- Equalizing the space between controls in a report
- Equalizing the size of controls in a report
- Sliding controls to remove blank space in a report
- Positioning controls in a report
- Rotating controls in a report
- Displaying and Validating Data
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- About displaying and validating data
- About display formats
- Working with display formats
- Defining display formats
- About edit styles
- Working with edit styles
- Defining edit styles
- Defining a code table
- About validation rules
- Working with validation rules
- Defining validation rules
- How to maintain extended attributes
- Filtering, Sorting, and Grouping Rows
- Highlighting Information in Reports and Forms
- Using Nested Reports
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- About nested reports
- Creating a report using the Composite presentation style
- Placing a nested report in another report
- Working with nested reports
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- Adjusting nested report width and height
- Changing a nested report from one report to another
- Modifying the definition of a nested report
- Adding another nested report to a composite report
- Supplying retrieval arguments to relate a nested report to its base report
- Specifying criteria to relate a nested report to its base report
- Using options for nested reports
- Exporting and Importing XML Data
- Working with Graphs
- Working with Crosstabs
- Working with TreeViews
- Working with Rich Text
- Using OLE in a Report
