Report header and footer section allows to place the report items at the top and bottom of the report body. You can place images, text boxes, and lines, rectangles and expressions in header and footer section of the report. For example, you can place the Report Title, Company Logo, Company Address, Report Generated Time, Page Numbers etc in the headers and footers section.
Note: You cannot place data regions in the header and footer section of the report design. By default, reports have report footer, but not report header. Refer show or hide header and footer section to add or remove header and footer in a report.
Report body section is the main work area for designing the reports. You can place all types of report items in the report body section.
Following are the general properties of report header, body and footer area.
Border properties can be used to add or customize the border around header, body, or footer section in the report design. To set border properties to the report sections using properties panel, refer Border Properties section.
The background color property can be used to set the background color of the header/body/footer sections.
Background image property can be used to display company logos, watermarks, or any other background image to the report sections such as the page header, footer and body. To set background image to the report sections refer Background Image section.
Height property can be used to increase or decrease the height of the report header and footer area. This property is listed under the General
category of header/footer properties in the properties panel.
Enable this option to display header/footer only on the first page of a report instead of every page.
Enable this option to display header/footer only on the last page of a report instead of every page.
Size property can be used to set the width and height of the report body area in the report design. This property is listed under the Position
category of body properties in the properties panel.
The width of report header and footer will be same as the report body area.