Design Considerations
In creating a new report using Reporter, basic design considerations include:
• Formatting the report document, including selecting the type of presentation (Form, Page Layout, or Tabular), page size (Letter, Legal, A4, and so on) and page orientation (Portrait or Landscape)
• For Tabular and Form presentations, specifying the database tables to be included in the report document and how they are related (defining the report query)
• Selecting the types of fields to be included in the report document and grouping fields
You may add free trim, box trim, image, date and time, page number, and entry fields to the report; then group the entry fields into stack, matrix, or table fields.
Note: For complete descriptions of the various field types and instructions for creating, positioning, and manipulating fields, see
Creating Reports in OpenROAD.
• Determining where data breaks should occur
Each of these considerations is discussed in the sections that follow.