Sections Collection

Sections can come from either the Report Object (page 93) or Area Object (page 22). The Sections Collection is a collection of section objects. Access a specific Section Object in the collection using the Item property.

●When from the Report Object, the sections object will contain all the sections in the report.

●When from the Area Object, the sections object will contain all the sections in the area only.

Sections Collection Properties

	Property	Description	Read/Write	Restriction in
				event handler
	Count	Returns the number of section in the collection.	Read only	None
	Item	ReturnsSection Object (page 107). Item has an index	Read only	None
		parameter that can be either a string reference to the
		area section (i.e., for areas with one section: “RH”,
		“PH”, “GHn”, “D”, “GFn”, “PF”, or “RF”) or a
		numeric, 1-based index (i.e., Item (1)) for the Report
		Header area. Numeric index for sections starts at 1 for
		first section in the area/report and continues in order
		of appearance. If the area has multiple sections, they
		are represented using a lowercase letter (i.e., “Da”,
		“Db”, etc.).
	Parent	Reference to the Parent object (Report Object (page 93)	Read only	None
		or Area Object (page 22)).

Remarks

Instead of using the Item property as shown, you can reference a section directly, for example, Sections (“Da”).

SortField Object

The SortField Object includes properties for accessing information for record or group sort fields. It holds on to Report object, then releases the report object when destroyed. This object has an index instance variable to indicate its index.

Report Designer Component Object Model

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