Creating and Manipulating Extra Frames

You are not restricted to the default report sections that the JADE Report Writer Designer application provides.

You can create multiple frames based on any of the report sections, if required.

To create a new frame

  1. Right-click in the section in which you want to create a new frame.

    A popup (or context) menu, shown in the following image, is then displayed.

  2. Select the New command from the popup menu.

The new frame is then automatically created. When you first create a second frame of any section, the JADE Report Writer Designer application numbers the frames starting at number one (#1) for the original frame, number two (#2) for the second frame, and so on.

In the following example, a second detail frame has been created.

Multiple frames follow the rules for the relevant section; that is, all frames are printed each time the section is required to be printed for the static frames (headers and footers) and all detail frames are printed for each record retrieved before details of the next record are printed.

To move a frame

  1. Right-click in the frame that you want to move.

    A popup menu, shown in the following image, is then displayed.

  2. Select the Move Up command to move the frame up one place within the section or select the Move Down command to move the frame down one place within the section.

The Move Up, Move Down, and Delete commands are enabled only if you have selected a section that contains multiple frames. The Move Up command is not enabled if you have selected the top frame of a section and the Move Down command is not enabled if you have selected the bottom frame of a section.

To delete a frame

  1. Right-click on the frame that you want to delete.

  2. Select the Delete command on the popup menu that is then displayed.

    A confirmation dialog is then displayed.

  3. Click the Yes button to delete the frame or click the No button to abandon the deletion.

The Delete command is enabled only if you have selected a section that contains multiple frames.

You can also delete a frame (when there is more than one in the section) by using the Section Properties dialog. For details about displaying the Section Properties dialog, see "Changing the Section Properties", in the following subsection. For full details about changing the section properties, see "Setting the Section Properties" under "Using Administrative Functions", later in this chapter.