Chapter 6: Enhancing Reports

About this chapter

After InfoMaker generates a basic report, you can further enhance its appearance and content. You do that in the Report painter. This chapter describes basic enhancements you can make to a report.

Related topics

Other ways to enhance reports are covered in later chapters:

Chapter

Explains how to

Chapter 7, “Working with Controls in Reports”

Add controls to a report and reorganize, position, and rotate them

Chapter 19, “Controlling Updates in Forms”

Control update capabilities

Chapter 8, “Displaying and Validating Data”

Specify display formats, edit styles, and validation rules for column data

Chapter 9, “Filtering, Sorting, and Grouping Rows”

Limit which rows are displayed, the order in which they are displayed, and whether they are divided into groups

Chapter 10, “Highlighting Information in Reports and Forms”

Highlight data by using conditional expressions to modify the properties of controls in reports

Chapter 11, “Using Nested Reports”

Place reports inside reports

Chapter 13, “Working with Graphs”

Use graphs to visually present information retrieved in a report

Chapter 14, “Working with Crosstabs”

Use crosstabs to present analyses of data retrieved in a report

Chapter 15, “Working with TreeViews”

Use TreeViews to group data and display it hierarchically in a way that allows you to expand and collapse it