Section Layout 

Use

There are a number of different ways you can modify the layout of the sections in a report:

Features

You can use a different layout for each section. Section layouts contain control information on:

You can also apply the report layout to sections. Any changes you make to the report layout then become effective automatically in the sections where it was applied.

The section layout can be defined differently for each section. To define a layout for a certain section, double-click on the section and you can then make the settings for the column attributes.

In the section overview in the Report Painter, you can change the attributes of the sections, the sequence of the sections, and the page breaks between the sections. This includes overscores and underscores, and how the headers should be printed.

For more information on formatting, see Summation Levels.