Creating Reports

With the Report Designer, you can edit existing reports, as well as create your own reports from scratch. The following sections contain tutorials providing step-by-step instructions on both basic and advanced report customization.

• Basic Operations

  The topics in this section cover the basics of working with reports in the Report Designer.

• Providing Data

  The documents in this section describe how to connect reports to various kinds of data sources and provide data to report elements.

• Shaping Data

  The topics in this section detail various data shaping tasks that you can perform with your reports.

• Appearance Customization

  The topics in this section describe how to customize the appearance of a report or any of its elements using specific appearance options, visual styles and conditional formatting.

• Report Navigation and Interactivity

  The tutorials in this section cover the navigation-related features of the Report Designer.

• Adding Details about a Report

  The documents in this section describe how to add technical information about a report to a generated document.

• Scripting

  This topic provides basic information about scripting and contains an example of using scripts to customize a report.