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Chapter 3
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The New Layout/Report assistant automatically creates the appropriate layout parts depending on the
choices you make. You can add, change, or delete layout parts after you finish the assistant as needed. (See
“Creating layouts and reports” on page 70.)
About layout part types
The following table describes layout part types.
Layout part Description
Title header Appears only once at the top of the first screen or page and replaces the normal header (if one is specified). In
reports, can be used to print a separate title page. You can have only one title header in a layout.
Header Appears at the top of every screen or page (unless you add a title header, which supersedes the header on the
first page). Use for titles or column headings (in columnar reports). You can have only one header in a layout.
Body Each object you put in the body, including fields, text objects, and graphics, appears once for each record in the
found set. You can have only one body in a layout.
Footer Appears at the bottom of every screen or page (unless you add a title footer). You can have only one footer in a layout.
Title footer Appears only once at the bottom of the first screen or page and replaces the normal footer (if one is specified).
You can have only one title footer in a layout.
Body
Header
Subsummary
Trailing Grand
Summary
Footer
Sales Report
A subsummary below the body
summarizes data for each
group of records sorted on the
break field (Agent Name)
Trailing grand summary
Footer
Agent Name Product ID Qty Amount
David Michaels ET3 1 $29.95
David Michaels ET4 1 $32.25
David Michaels ET1 2 $73.90
David Michaels ET5 3 $98.85
Total $234.95
Sophie Tang ET6 2 $64.50
Sophie Tang ET7 5 $12.50
Sophie Tang ET2 2 $25.00
Total $102.00
Grand Total $336.95
EveryWhere Travel Confidential June 2009