The Designer workspace consists of three tabbed panes. They are
Report
tab, Layout
tab and the Functions
tab.
The report structure, consisting of the DataSources
, Page Setup
, Sections
and
Style
sections are displayed in the left panel of the Report tab window.
The Render Sequence
and the Parameters
panel are present on the right of the Report tab
window. These will be discussed later in this chapter.
The Layout
tab window contains a tool bar and report layout as
shown in Figure 3.1, “Report Layout”. The layout contains details, headers and
footers.
The Functions
tab window contains several tabbed panes: Script Summary
,
Function Definitions
, On Render Begin
, On Render End
and Render If
. These
will be described in Chapter 6, Scripting with JavaScript.