Report Section Overview

For a new report, the embedded Crystal Reports Designer is divided into five report sections. You can choose to create additional sections, or to hide certain sections.

• Report Header
• Page Header
• Details
• Report Footer
• Page Footer

The data that appears in the finished report is contingent upon your design choices: in particular, report data varies depending on the sections into which you choose to insert particular report objects. For example, if you insert a chart object in the Report Header section, the chart will appear only once at the beginning of the report and will summarize the data contained in the report. Alternatively, if a chart object is added to the Group Header section, a separate chart will appear at the beginning of each group of data and will summarize the data relating only to that group.

In this section:

• Report Header

• Page Header

• Details

• Report Footer

• Page Footer

• Additional Report Sections

See Also

• Determining Printing Area Characteristics

• Report Processing Model

• Hiding Report Sections

  Explains how to hide or drill down on report information.

• Designing New Reports

  Explains how to access the embedded Crystal Reports Designer and provides detailed steps on how to design a new report.