Rave Reports Visual Designer

Report Tab (Components)

The "Report" tab controls the visibility of the toolbar that allows to you to select a "Report" component and place it on your page.

There are several report components. They are the Region component and many band components  ( Band, CalcController, CalcOp, CalcText, CalcTotal, DataBand, DataCycle, DataMemo, DataMirrorSection and DataText . The first thing to understand is that a region's sole purpose is to hold band(s). You are not limited on the number of bands within one region. Nor are you limited to a single region. You can have many regions on a page or a region within a region or a region within a band. And you can have many bands within each region. Each band type has its own set of properties to control its behavior. This is covered in more detail in the manual.

This is where the flexibility of RAVE starts to appear. You may need to sit back and visualize your report requirements a bit. Get it down to an outline concept and then go to it. These regions within a band could be thought of giving you the ability to do composite or sub-report(s). It could be a master product list with the exploded parts listed below each product item.

See Also:

Band, Components, DataBand, DataMemo, DataMirrorSection, DataText, Region, Toolbars

Toolbars:

Alignment, Colors, Designer, Fills, Fonts, Lines, Project, Zoom

Components:

Bar Code, Drawing, Standard

Non-Visible Components ( visible ONLY in the Project Tree view )

CalcController, CalcOp, CalcText, CalcTotal, DataCycle