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Page reports can be of two types - an FPL, fixed page layout report, and a CPL, Continuous Page Layout report. You can convert FPL reports to CPL and CPL reports to FPL - see Report Menu for details. FPL and CPL reports have some differences in report elements, so a Report Explorer shows different nodes for an FPL and a CPL.

When you have a page report open in the ActiveReports Designer, an FPL type is displayed by default and you can see nodes like the following.

• Document Outline
  • Each report page
    • Each control on the page, for example:
    • BandedList
    • Matrix
    • Table
• Data Sources
  • DataSource (right-click to add a data source; you can have more than one)
    • DataSet (right-click the DataSource to add a data set)
      • Fields (drag onto the report or onto a data region)
    • Another DataSet (you can have more than one)
• Parameters (right-click to open a dialog and add a parameter)
• EmbeddedImages (right-click to browse for an image to add)
• CommonValues (drag onto the report to display the value in a textbox)

To have a CPL open in the ActiveReports Designer, you should open a page report - an FPL by default, and then convert it to a CPL.

To convert an FPL to a CPL

After you have an FPL converted to a CPL, you can see nodes like the following:

• Document Outline
• Body (default, cannot be removed)
• Page Header and Footer (can be added)
  • Each control, for example:
  • TextBox
  • Picture
  • PageBreak
  • SubReport
• Data Sources
  • DataSource (right-click to add a data source; you can have more than one)
    • DataSet (right-click the DataSource to add a data set)
      • Fields (drag onto the report or onto a data region)
    • Another DataSet (you can have more than one)
• Parameters (right-click to open a dialog and add a parameter)
• EmbeddedImages (right-click to browse for an image to add)
• CommonValues (drag onto the report to display the value in a textbox)

In the Report Explorer, in addition to removing controls, adding, editing or removing parameters, adding a data source, and dragging fields onto the report, you can also share a data source; add datasets; add, edit, or remove embedded images; and drag common values like page numbers, current date, or report name onto the report as a textbox. You can also select the report or any element in the report to display in the Properties window, where you can modify its properties.

To add a DataSource

To share a DataSource

To add a DataSet

To bind a DataSet field to a TextBox control

To add parameters

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