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Report Header and Footer

The Report Header and Report Footer are the only types of report bands rendered once per report.

The Report Header is the first band of a report on the first page (not counting margins as they are "out-of-page" zones). The Report Header also precedes the Page Header, making it the best place to display the report's name, company logo, date of creation and user name, etc.

And, if you plan to add a Chart  that visualizes the report's data, place this control onto this band.

The Report Footer finalizes the informative part of the report. It is placed before the Page Footer and Bottom Margin on the report's last page. Use the Report Footer for report grand totals or conclusions.

In the Property Grid , the properties of these bands are divided into the following groups.

• Background Color
  

  Specifies the background color for the controls contained within the band. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar  ().

• Borders, Border Color and Border Width
  

  Specify border settings for the controls contained within the band.

• Font
  

  Specifies the font settings for the controls contained within the band. Some of these settings are available in the Formatting Toolbar.

• Foreground Color
  

  Specifies the text color for the controls contained within the band. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar ().

• Formatting Rules

  Invokes the Formatting Rules Editor allowing you to choose which rules should be applied to the band during report generation, and define the precedence of the applied rules. 

• Padding
  

  Specifies indent values which are used to render the contents of the controls contained within the bands.

• Style Priority
  

  Allows you to define the priority of various style elements (such as background color, border color, etc.). 

• Styles
  

  This property allows you to define odd and even styles for the controls contained within the bands, as well as to assign an existing style to them (or a newly created one).
  

• Text Alignment
  

  Allows you to change the text alignment of the controls contained within the bands. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar.

• Keep Together
  

  When this option is on, the report tries to fit the band contents entirely on one page, not allowing it to split across several pages. In general, if the contents are too large to fit on a single page, then the band is started on a new page, and continues on the following page.

• Page Break
  

  Use this property if the current report design requires that the band's section should be separated from previous sections or follow-ups. Specify the Before the Band or After the Band values to insert a page break before or after the current band. In many cases, this property may be used instead of the Page Break  control.

• Print at Bottom
  

  This property is available for the Report Footer band only, and determines whether this band should be printed at the bottom of the last page, or immediately after the last report's details. The Report Footer has priority over the Group Footer's Print at Bottom property, so the Group Footer can never be placed after the Report Footer.

• Scripts
  

  This property contains events, which you can handle with the required scripts. 

• Visible
  

  Specifies whether the band should be visible in print preview.

• Tag
  

  This property allows you to add some additional information to the band; for example its id, by which it can then be accessible via scripts.

• (Name)
  

  Determines a band's name, by which it can be accessed in the Report Explorer, Property Grid or via scripts.

• Height
  

  Specifies the band's height, in report units.

• Snap Line Padding
  

  Specifies the padding (in report measurement units), which is to be preserved within the band when controls it contains are aligned using Snap Lines.

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