Reporting
User Guide
Reference : Report Bands : Detail Report Bands (for Master-Detail Reports)
The Detail Report Band is a type of band used to incorporate one report into another in master-detail reports.
The Detail Report Band is quite different from the Detail Band since it holds the whole detail report in a master-detail report layout.
There can be an unlimited number of Detail Report Bands nested inside one another, and every new group of bands is coloured differently in Reporting, as illustrated below:
The Detail Report Band cannot be added to a report via the Report Editor like other band types. To add a Detail Report Band, right-click the report and in the Context menu, point to Insert Detail Report. If the bound data source contains a data relationship, the submenu will contain an item with the name of that relationship. Select this item to create a Detail Report Band already bound to a detail table. Otherwise, add an unbound detail report and specify its properties later.
In the Property Grid, the properties of this band are divided into the following groups:
Specifies the background colour for the controls contained within the band. This option is also available on the Formatting Toolbar (
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Specifies the font settings for the controls contained within the band. Some of these settings are available on the Formatting Toolbar.
Specifies the text colour for the controls contained within the band. This option is also available on the Formatting Toolbar (
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).Displays the Formatting Rules Editor, used to choose which rules should be applied to the band during report generation, and define the precedence of the applied rules. Refer to Conditionally Change a Control's Appearance for further information.
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Used to change the text alignment of the controls contained within the band. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar.
Use this property if the current report design requires that the band's section should be separated from previous sections or follow-ups. Specify the Before the Band or After the Band values to insert a page break before or after the current band. In many cases, this property may be used instead of the Page Break control.
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This property contains events, which can be handled with the scripts. Refer to Handle Events via Scripts for further information on scripting.
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Determines the data adapter that provides the detail data for the report. Refer to Master-Detail Report (Detail Report Bands) for further information.
Determines a name of the data relationship established within the bound data source. Refer to Master-Detail Report (Detail Report Bands) for further information.
Determines the data source that provides the detail data for the report. If this property is not defined, the detail report gets data from the master report's data source. Refer to Master-Detail Report (Detail Report Bands) for further information.
Used to display the Filter String Editor, used to define a filtering condition for a detail report's data. Refer to Change or Apply Data Filtering to a Report for further information.
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Used to define a path to data contained in an XML file. The data contained in the file will then be used as the Detail Report Band's data source.
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Note that a detail report uses the XML Data Path property value only when the Data Source property is set to None. The XML Data Path property has a lower priority than the Data Source property.
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Determines a band's name, by which it can be accessed in the Report Explorer, Property Grid or by scripts.
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Used to display the Report Editor for managing and customising a report's bands.
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Specifies the order of several Detail Report Band objects in a report. It enables the reordering of different Detail Report Bands at the same level of master-detail relationships.
Specifies whether or not a Detail Report Band should be printed if its data source is empty.
