Report Designer Overview

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The Report Designer includes a drawing canvas in which you drag and drop objects to design the report layout or behavior. Once objects are placed on the page, they can be moved or manipulated. To change the report, page, or object properties (e.g., style, navigation, and behavior), select the object on the canvas and modify the attributes in the Properties bar.

 

The Report Designer consists of two views:

 

•Layout (L) - The Layout view is where you design the user interface for the report.
•Behavior (B) - The Behavior view is where you add report intelligence or actions based on user input such as calculations, validations, showing/hiding objects, or performing lookups.  

 

The following are the main navigation options in the Report Designer:

 

•To switch between views, click L or B on the toolbar.

Navigation Buttons

 
•The menu bar includes Report, Edit, Format and View menus regardless of view (L or B). To see a complete breakdown of all menu bar options, see the Report Designer Reference topic.

Menus

 
•To resize a bar or the canvas, drag the dividers located between the Toolbox/Browser bar, canvas and Properties bar.

Page Grab Divider
•To expand or collapse a portion of the Toolbox/Browser or Properties bars, click the up and down arrows within a blue section heading.

Section Expand-Collapse Buttons
•To go to the PerfectForms™ Reports Dashboard, click the Close button on the Report Designer toolbar.

Close Button

Updated: 06/12/2011  Page url: http://www.perfectforms.com/Documentation/manual/html/?understanding_the_form_builder_2.htm
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