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At a Glance
You define the report layout by filling in fields on the Define Lines
screen. The specifications you enter are checked on-line for
correctness. As you are defining the layout, you can review what you
have already defined for the report by looking at the Review Layout
screen. This makes it easy for you to create new reports and to maintain
existing ones.
Features of Report Layout
* Easy "fill in the box - see what you get" layout specification
* Break heading and footing linesets for report, page and up to 9
sort levels
* Up to 999 lines per lineset
* Item editing and numeric scaling
* Alternate item edits for zero values
* Row and column calculations
* Suppressed printing of repeating item values
* Control of calculation precision
* Conditional lineset formats
* Page size ranges from 1 - 999 lines long and 1 - 300 characters
wide
* Support of horizontal pages
* Optional demand for special paper before printing the report
* New page before or after a lineset is printed
* Positioning a lineset in a fixed place on a page
* Resetting page numbering at specific sort level
This chapter covers
* report layout principles
* defining linesets
* detail linesets
* page and report linesets
* break linesets
* positioning and editing items