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22 AUG | intro
27 AUG | clients
29 AUG | servers
05 Sep | networks
10 Sep | basics lab
12 Sep | structural layer
17 Sep | presentational layer
19 Sep | working with layers
24 Sep | behavior layer
26 Sep | images & design
01 Oct | website lab
03 Oct | object layers
08 Oct | graphics
10 Oct | document markup lab
15 Oct | spreadsheets
17 Oct | formulas & functions
22 Oct | thoughts about data display
18 Oct | Fall Break
24 Oct | database tools
29 Oct | spreadsheets lab
31 Oct | relational databases
05 Nov | tables
07 Nov | relationships
12 Nov | forms for input |
Task 05.03 |
reports for output |
Task 05.04 |
next session
14 Nov | SQL
19 Nov | complex queries
26 Nov | databases lab
21 Nov | Thanksgiving
28 Nov | presentation design
03 Dec | presentation delivery
05 Dec | presentation lab
12 Dec | 0800-1100 | final in class presentation
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Reports allow you to create paper products that are the result of a restructuring of the underlying database.
It's a way to retrieve and present selected information stored in your database in a format that will be printed rather than viewed on a computer monitor.
Reports provide a snapshot of your database (or a part of your database) each time a report is generated. A well-designed report can be used over and over.
If you want to create a simple report that is a duplicate of a particular table or (more likely) a simple select query, create a report based on that table.
You then will see what the printed report will look like, but it might have taken some formatting work in the design view to make this happen.
If you want to modify the report's appearance, you may do it in the WYSIWYG design view or you may choose to be more precise and exact by working within the report object's properties.
select the Wizard
Using the Wizard dialog boxes, you can combine data from multiple tables and/or queries into a report. If you do use multiple tables/queries in the report, the Wizard will ask you to select the primary item on which the report will be based ...
... and will ask you how you want the data grouped below the primary item ...
... and decide how to display the data in the sections of the report.
If the data can be manipulated by some sort of math operator, you will have the opportunity to perform summary operation in the form by selecting the appropriate option ...
... which will insert selected functions into the design.
It will then guide you through setting up the display properties ...
... and then carry you through the print view ...
... from which you can alter the appearance by using the design view.
what appears at the top of the report
includes the title
what appears at the top of each page in the report
similar to showing the column headings on each page of an Excel printout
if the report is grouped, what appears atop each grouping of data
where the data from the tables/queries will appear
what appears at the bottom of each page
what appears on the last page of the report
You can add new components and functions to reports
see this short PPT show for one tool you need to have