Adding Text and Presentation Elements

In this example, you will add a title and page numbering to the report that you created in Creating a New Report. Follow the steps below:

1. Click on the 'Header' button in the top toolbar to select the header. The insertion point indicator (black triangle) appears at the top left edge of the header.

 

2. Click the 'Text' button in the Toolbox panel. An editable gray box appears in the header.

3. In the text box, type “Sample Sales Report”. Click outside of the box to finish editing.

 

4. Click on the new Text element to select it. Use the controls on the toolbar to change the font to Tahoma 24-point Bold Underline. Then click the 'Center' alignment button to align the Text element on the page.

 

Note: There are four pre-existing header and footer types: default, first page, even page, and odd page

You will now add automatic page numbering to the report footer. Page numbers and date/time stamps are generated by the report engine when the report is generated. You can add these dynamic elements by placing special tags in the report header or footer.

Follow the steps below to add page-numbering to the report.

5. Click on the 'Footer' button in the top toolbar. The insertion point indicator appears at the top left edge of the footer.

 

6. Click the 'Text' button to add a new Text element to the footer. In the text box, type “{P} of {N}”.

 

The {P} and {N} tags designate page num­ber and page total, respoectively. Other tags are {D} for date, and {T} for time.

7. Click anywhere outside of the footer to deselect it. The footer is now complete.

 

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