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Introduction to the Crystal Reports Designer

In the report designer, please notice that a report is made up on sections.

• Report Header section is generally used for the title, data creation data, report number or other information that one wants to appear at the beginning of a report.
• Page Header section is used for information that needs to appear at the top of each page. An excellent use of this section is to display the field titles for a report.
• Details section contains the records for the report. The detail section is printed once for each record.
• Report Footer section is used to display information desired at the end of the report such as grand totals and counts.
• Page Footer is an excellent place to put any information that will display on the bottom of each page. For example the page number

Another feature/function that is available are the report design explorers.

• Report Explorer provides a view of each section and the fields and or objects contained within that section,
• Field Explorer contains the database fields, formulas, SQL expressions, parameters, running totals and special fields. All of which are available for use in the report.
• Repository Explorer is a view of the objects contained and available from the Crystal enterprise report repository.