Report/Presentation Bands

The following bands are defined in the Report/Presentation Designer:

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

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

The data shown in a report or presentation may be displayed as several vertical columns (the size and number of columns are determined in the Report Presentation properties – see Setting Report/Presentation 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 or presentation. 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. See also the picture in the Defining Presentation section for an example of a presentation design and the resulting document in the Operation Mode.

The data of a report or presentation 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. See also the picture in the Defining Presentation section for the example of a presentation design that has one group defined (Product Category) and the resulting document in the Operation Mode.

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

You can change properties of the bands or specify which ones are visible – see Setting Band Properties and Viewing Bands.