4. Beautify reports

In section 3, a simple report has been made.

Click design, select a text box, and press the F4 key to display the specific attributes of this text box. Here we set BackgroudColor to blue, Color to White, and BorderColor to Aqua (light green)

, Click "preview", as shown below:

 

Looking at the current report, it is more beautiful than the previous one. You can also set the border color and background color for the data row. Here, we only set the border color of the Data row to DodgerBlue.

After you click "preview", the following results are displayed:

 

After reading this report, do you think there is something missing? Here, we need to know the composition of the report.

A report consists of the following parts:
Report header: displays the title, drawing, or descriptive text of a report at the beginning of a report. Each report has only one report header.
Page header: used to display the field name in the report or the group name of the record. Each page of the report has only one page header.
Subject: print the record data in a table or query. It is the main area of data displayed in a report.
Page footer: it is printed at the bottom of each page to display the summary description on this page. The report has only one page footer.
Report footer: used to display the summary description of the entire report. After all records are processed, it is only printed at the end of the report.

Here, we need to add a report header and report footer to the report. Right-click the report and Choose Insert> header to insert the report footer in the same way.

Click "Header", right click -- insert -- text box, set it to the same width as the report, select the text box, and right click the text box -- Right click --- create placeholder.

 

Then, the placeholder Property dialog box appears.

 

Here, we mainly show the report title and click the fx next to the "value,

 

In the expression dialog box, enter "personnel information of Huaxing Technology Co., Ltd.", click "OK", click "font", set it to "-- ", and set the size to 12pt, set the color to blue and bold.

Add a text box in the same way, put it on the right side of the report header, and add a placeholder in the text box. The point operator value is = "tabulation Date:" + DateString (), click OK.

Select the text box, right-click the text box, right-click the property of the text box, and select the font (set to ""-the color is gray (gray), and align (set to horizontal> the right border, vertical --- bottom), as shown in:

 

Click Preview, as shown in:

 

Next, click design options to add a footer for the report.

Like adding a header, add a text box to show it to the lower right corner, add a placeholder in the text box, and set the placeholder value to = "Huaxing Technology Co., Ltd ", set the font to "" and the color to gray. Similarly, set the attributes of the text box-align (set to horizontal-right-box, vertical-bottom). Click "OK.

Click Preview. The report is displayed as follows:

 

Add two lines to the report to make the report more appealing.

Right-click the report header, right-click the report header, and choose Insert> split line chart. Hold one end of the split line chart to make it a straight line. Set the line width, select the line, and press F4 to set the line attributes.

--- Linestryle (Dotted) --- lineColor (Gray). Similarly, add a line chart in the footer and set it to the same attribute as the header so that it is displayed above the footer text box.

Click Preview to display the following information:

 

 

OK. A beautiful report is displayed.