Using the Sections of a Report

When you start a new report design in the JADE Report Writer Designer application, five report sections are automatically created for you. These sections are also referred to as report frames, and represent the distinct sections of a report; that is, headers, detail frames, and footers.

The following image shows the default sections or frames that are displayed when starting a new report design. (For details about starting a new report, see "Starting a Report from Scratch", earlier in this chapter.)

Each section is a distinct report entity. For example, the Detail section defines the layout of your detail lines.

In most cases, the detail lines are repeated many times between headers and footers, although the Detail section appears as one section in your design.

You can also specify group sections. Groups provide a way of grouping your data and therefore provide an additional header and footer section, as shown in the following image.

For details about creating group sections, see "Creating Groups", later in this chapter.

The following subsections describe the report sections in more detail.

• Report Section Descriptions

• Creating and Manipulating Extra Frames

• Changing the Section Properties