Section Layout

Use

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

  • You can apply the parameters specified in the report layout

  • You can apply a section-specific layout

Features

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

  • Row totals

  • Row texts

  • Column texts

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.

You can use the following layout parameters in the section layout:

Part of report

Layout parameters available

Row

  • Summation levels (from, to)

  • Summation selection, suppression of identical totals

  • Summation item (above, below, below with text above)

  • Zero row processing (Print/Hide/...)

  • +/- sign editing (for editing balance forms)

Key/header column

  • Text type (description/key and description/...)

  • Indent

  • Key column attributes (width, length)

Column

  • Summation item (left, right)

  • Zero column suppression

Column header

  • Text type (description/key and description/...)

  • Display (left, middle, right)

Note Note

End of the note.

Parameters that you have defined in an individual section layout have priority over the corresponding parameters in the report layout.

For more information on formatting, see Summation Levels .