The articles in this section of the Knowledge Base involve working with Lists for display in your reports. To learn more about Lists and how to access the Report Designer, see Creating Lists in Report Designer. This article provides information for dragging and dropping from the Data Dictionary.
There are multiple ways to access the Data Dictionary:
Within Report Designer, you can drag and drop data sources, columns, variables, functions, and more. You can create a list by merely dragging the Data Source from the Data Dictionary into the report template. Figure 02 demonstrates an example of dragging the Data Source “Products” from the Data Dictionary on to the report page.
Once you’ve dragged the Data Source, the Data window will automatically open.
For this example, I included Header and Footer Bands, I selected a Data Band, and chose four Data Columns to be included. The Report Template auto-populated, as seen in Figure 04.
As can be seen, the Report Designer automatically added the appropriate labels to the Header Band. Text Components were added to the Footer, but they are empty by default. I inserted a Count variable into the Footer for purposes of display. When rendered, with no additional alterations, the report should look something like Figure 05.