Report Studio

Creating Sections

Create sections in a report to show a data item as the heading of a section. When you run the report, separate sections appear for each value.

Creating sections is similar to creating headers by grouping on a data item . The difference is that section headers appear outside the list, crosstab, chart, or repeater. In addition, you can group data items only in lists.

To create a section:

Click the column that you want to show as a section heading.
Do one of the following:
From the Structure menu, click Section.
If the column is in a list or repeater, this menu option will create sections without creating a master-detail relationship. This can improve performance when running the report.

If the column is in a crosstab or chart, this menu option will create sections using a master-detail relationship.
From the Structure menu, click Section using Master/Detail.
This menu option creates sections using a master-detail relationship.

Sections are created, and a section header appears. The data container that contains the column used to create sections is embedded in a list.

To add or remove section headers and footers, from the Structure menu, click List Headers & Footers, select or clear the appropriate check boxes, and click OK.

The section header and footer check boxes appear under Overall header.