Including a title page

Chapter 4 Managing a Report

Including a title page

A title page prints as the first page in a report. You include a title page once for the entire report.

A title page can include any of the following information:

Information	Prints
Title	Free text, by default the name of the current report.
Author	Name of the report author, as indicated in the Version Info tab of the model property sheet.
Date	Date when the report is printed. This box is initialized with the current date.
Version	Version number of the report, as indicated in the model property sheet.
Summary	Free text describing the report.

You can click the Format button to customize the title or the optional fields.

To include a title page in a report:

Select Report→Report Properties from the Report Editor window, and click the Title Page tab.

or

Click the Title Page button in the Presentation Options page of the Report Creation Wizard.

The Title Page dialog box is displayed. By default, the Include title page radio button and all the optional fields are selected.

Select the check boxes corresponding to information to include in the title page and type the appropriate text in each corresponding text box.

or

Clear the check boxes corresponding to information to remove from the title page.

Click the Format button to customize the title or the optional fields.

The Format dialog box opens to the Font tab.

Select format options.

Click OK in each of the dialog boxes.

Title page in HTML report
The title page is always ignored for a report generated as an HTML file, a home page is generated instead. For more information, see the "Managing HTML format" section.