About frame and repeating frame sizing About fields

Basic Concepts 1-27 produce masterdetail and break reports. For each record of the outer repeating frame, Oracle Reports Builder will format all related records of the enclosed repeating frame. You can also create a repeating frame manually in the Paper Layout view. See Section 1.6.3, About the Paper Layout view . See also Section 4.9.1.2, Creating a frame or repeating frame

1.8.3 About frame and repeating frame sizing

For each object or record, a frame or repeating frames size can be expandable, contractible, variable, or fixed specified by the Horizontal Elasticity and Vertical Elasticity properties. For example, you can set the properties to specify that it should be fixed in size horizontally, but expand vertically if a record requires more space. In the figure below, notice that there are four records for department 20, but only one record each for departments 10 and 30. The repeating frame has expanded vertically to accommodate department 20s additional records. Figure 1–14 Repeating frame sizing Frames or repeating frames that contract horizontally or vertically reduce in size when an object or record requires less space than the frame or repeating frames initial size. A frame or repeating frame may also be variable in size: it expands or contracts based on the size of the value it displays. Also, if a frame or repeating frame is fixed in size and an object or records data requires a larger field than it can contain, the remaining data will be pushed onto the following pages in the same x and y coordinates. See also Section 4.9.1.2, Creating a frame or repeating frame

1.8.4 About fields

Fields are placeholders for parameters, columns, and such values as the page number, current date, and so on. If a parameter or column does not have an associated field, its values will not appear in the report output. A field is owned by the object surrounding it, which is the first enclosing object either a frame or repeating frame. When you default the layout for a report, Oracle Reports Builder generates one field for each column, and places each field inside of a repeating frame. You can also create a field manually in the Paper Design view, Paper Layout view or Paper Parameter Form view. 1-28 Oracle Reports Users Guide to Building Reports See also Section 1.9.2, About Parameter Form fields Section 4.9.1.1, Creating a field object Section 4.9.2.5, Referencing a field in boilerplate text

1.8.5 About boilerplate objects