Report Bands

The following bands are defined in the Report Designer:

This band usually shows the title of a report. It is only processed once at the start of the report when the report is filled out with data at run time.

A report may contain several pages (the size of a page is determined in the Report properties – see Setting Report Properties). Elements of these bands are shown in the header and footer of each report page respectively.

The data shown in a report may be displayed as several vertical columns (the size and number of columns are determined in the Report properties – see Setting Report Properties). Elements of these bands are shown in the header and footer of each column respectively.

This is probably the main section of a report. Elements in the details band are repeated over and over again for different sets of data available in the data source at run time (see Reports). For example, if the details band contains elements that display values of the two attributes of a business object and at run time there are 5 instances of the business object (found by a query, for example) the elements in the details band will be repeated 5 times. Each time the band will be filled with attribute values of the corresponding instance.

The data of a report may be divided into groups. For example, each group may only show the data starting with a particular letter of the alphabet. The Group bands are explained in greater detail in the Reports section.

This band usually shows the report summary. It is only processed once at the end of the report.

You can change properties of the bands – see Setting Band Properties.