Using multiple sections in reports

Seagate Crystal Reports provides five design areas to use when building your report: Report Header, Page Header, Details, Report Footer, and Page Footer.

Each area contains a single section when you first create a report. Certain reporting tasks are performed most efficiently by creating multiple sections within an area, such as:

●keeping variable length objects from overwriting each other (see How to prevent variable length objects from overwriting each other, Page 215),

●putting conditional messages in form letters (see How to print conditional messages in form letters, Page 225),

●formatting objects/sections differently based on field values (see How to format objects conditionally, Page 224),

●alternating background colors on a row-by-row basis (see

How to alternate background colors for rows, Page 226),

●eliminating blank lines when fields are empty (see How to eliminate blank lines, Page 227), or

●adding blank lines under specific conditions (see How to add blank lines conditionally, Page 228).

When you understand the power of multiple sections, you will discover even more ways that you can use them to produce the report effects you want.

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