Specifications

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The process for creating the Banded Report shown above follows:
Create the Title and Detail Bands
First a List Report Type is chosen, with a Title Band and Detail Bands created. The Detail
Band contains the Employee ID, and employee last name/first name concatenated. Also
the band has been given a purple background color.
Create the datasets
Four datasets will be created and named empl_phone, empl_email, Emergency, and
Dependents.
To add a dataset, click the Show/hide the dataset icon on the Band Report Editor Toolbar.
Figure 123 – Clicking the Green Plus Sign to add a dataset
Click the green plus sign on the right to bring up the following dialog box in which you
identify the properties of the dataset.
Figure 124 – Building the dataset using the query builder
Name the dataset empl_phone and set the Master Dataset to ArgosData(main).
ArgosData(main) is the dataset containing the Main Report query.
Click the “Build Query” icon (the hat with the hammer) to bring up the Build Query dialog
box. Click “Show Tables” then select the Employee_Phone table. Double-click on the
phone_type and phone_number fields which will place them into the tables at the
bottom of the window.
Show/Hide Dataset icon on Band Report
Editor Toolbar
Build Query icon