A report data field references an individual piece of data. It can be either a database field, which displays information from one column in a query result, or a computed field, which displays a value computed from the data in a function or formula.

After you have defined a query, you can add data fields to the report document.

A data field maps to a field in the query result that you use to supply data for the report.

Data field creation methods include the following:

Each of the data field creation methods are described in the following sections. After data fields are created, they can be modified as described in Modify Field Properties (see Modify Field Properties).