ActiveReports 9
Overlaying Reports (Letterhead)
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ActiveReports allows you to overlay static report formats over data reports. This walkthrough illustrates how to overlay an ActiveReport with a static letterhead report.

This walkthrough is split up into the following activities:

Note: This walkthrough uses the Northwind database. By default, in ActiveReports, the Northwind.mdb file is located at [User Documents folder]\GrapeCity Samples\ActiveReports 9\Data\NWIND.mdb.

When you complete this walkthrough you get a layout that looks similar to the following at design time and at runtime.

Design Time Layout (rptLetterhead)

Design Time Layout (rptData)

Runtime Layout

To add an ActiveReport to the Visual Studio project

To connect the rptData to a data source

To create a layout for the rptData

To create a layout for the rptLetterhead

To add code to overlay the data report pages with the letterhead report

To view the report

 

 


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