ActiveReports 11 Server Designer User Guide
Adding Report Info and Parameters
ActiveReports 11 Server Designer User Guide > Working with Text and Numbers > Working with Textboxes > Adding Report Info and Parameters

When you add a textbox to your report, you can display information about the report in it using Report Info and Parameter inserts.

To add parameters to a textbox

  1. Click inside the textbox as if to type in it. In the Report toolbar, the Parameter button is enabled.
  2. Click the Parameter button. A list of parameters for the report drops down.
  3. Select the parameter that you want to display on the report. A purple box with a question mark and the parameter name appears. When you click outside the textbox, the purple box disappears. At run time, the value of the parameter displays.

    Tip: You can add more than one Parameter or Report Info value in the same textbox, and add text around these values.

To add report info to a textbox

  1. Click inside the textbox as if to type in it. In the Report toolbar, the Report Info button is enabled.
  2. Click the Report Info button. A list of report info values for the report drops down.
  3. Select the value that you want to display on the report. A purple box with an ampersand and the report info value appears.

    Tip: You can add more than one Report Info value in the same textbox, and add text around these values as is done automatically in Page n of m.
     
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