Creating Your First Report

This topic explains how to create a basic tabular report. This process consists of the following tasks:

To log on to ActiveReports 8 Server

To create a new report

On the File tab of the ActiveReports 8 Server Report Portal, in the pane on the left, click New.
Click the data model that you want to use, in our example, ActiveTunes (Sample).
The Design tab appears, displaying the toolbar along the top, the Entity Tree and Attribute Tree on the left, and the design surface on the right. This is the ActiveReports 8 Server Report Portal.
The Entity Tree displays a list of entities in the data model. From the Entity Tree, drag the Customer entity to the report surface.
In the Select wizard that appears, select Table.
The Entity Tree expands the Customer entity, and the table appears on the report surface populated with some of the Customer attributes and with its adorners showing along the top, left, and bottom edges.
Click the table to reveal the adorners if they are not visible. Hover the pointer between the left adorner and the edge of the table to reveal arrow buttons.

Click the center arrow that appears on the left, and in the menu that appears, select Toggle Table Footer. A table footer is added.

Note: Each time you click Toggle Table Header or Toggle Table Footer, you switch the table header or footer on or off.

Hover the pointer above a column and click the arrow button that appears. In the context menu that appears, select Delete Column. The column is deleted.
You can add or delete other columns in the table using the Add Column Left, Add Column Right, and Delete Column menu items.

To add an attribute to the table and resize it

To save the report

To open an existing report

To render a report