Adjusting margins Adding a page break

How To... 4-99 ■ On the Fill Color palette, click No Fill. ■ On the Line Color palette, click No Line.

4.9.14 Modify the Page Layout

This section provides procedures for the following tasks that you may perform as you modify the page layout of your report: ■ Adjusting margins ■ Adding a page break

4.9.14.1 Adjusting margins

To adjust margins: 1. In the Paper Layout view, click the Edit Margin button in the toolbar. 2. Click the margin border, then drag a handle to the desired position. You can adjust the margin on all four sides of a report.

4.9.14.2 Adding a page break

To add a page break:

1. In the Paper Layout view, click any field that is part of the frame at which you

want to insert a page break.

2. Click the Parent Frame in the toolbar.

3. Choose Tools Property Inspector.

4. To set a page break... ■ before the selected frame: under the General Layout node, set the Page Break Before property to Yes. ■ after the selected frame: under the General Layout node, set the Page Break After property to Yes. ■ after a certain number of rows of output on each page: under the Repeating Frame node, set the Maximum Records per Page property to the number of rows you want to display on each page.

5. To display icons that identify where page breaks are set, choose View Page

Breaks in the Paper Layout view. Usage notes If you want to set a page break at a specific row of report output, you can create a hidden object for example, a rectangle with No Fill and No Line that formats only at the specific row. If you set the Page Break Before property to Yes for the rectangle object, you will get a page break after the row. Note: The margin area is defined by a thick black line that separates it from the body. If you create objects in the body portion of a report while displaying the margin area, you can only edit those objects when the margin is displayed. 4-100 Oracle Reports Users Guide to Building Reports

4.10 Work with Report Sections

This section provides procedures for the following tasks that you may perform as you work with report sections: ■ Displaying a section layout view ■ Creating a default layout for a section See also Section 2.1.2, About report sectioning and sections

4.10.1 Displaying a section layout view

To display the layout view for a report section: ■ In the Paper Layout view, do either of the following: ■ Choose View Layout Section, then select the section you want to view and check whether or not you want to view or edit the margin area. ■ In the toolbar, click the Header Section, the Main Section, or Trailer Section buttons to view the Header Section, Main Section, or Trailer Section, respectively; click the Edit Margin button to view or edit the margin area.

4.10.2 Creating a default layout for a section

To create a default layout for a report section: 1. In the Paper Layout view, display the layout view for the section.

2. Choose Tools Report Wizard.

3. Follow the wizard to create a default layout for your report. 4. To create a layout or objects in the margin area of a section, click the Edit Margin button in the toolbar to viewedit the margin area. 5. To add another layout section to the current layout, create an additional report layout see Section 4.5.5, Creating an additional report layout . 6. Make further modifications to the default layout manually in the Paper Layout view. 7. Set properties for the section, as desired. See also Section 2.4.2, About layout defaulting Section 4.5.4, Creating a default layout for a report Chapter 4.9.13.3, Changing the default layout spacing Caution: If you re-enter the Report Wizard after making manual adjustments to your layout in the Paper Layout or Paper Design view, you will lose these layout changes when you click Finish in the Report Wizard, which redefaults the layout.