Adding Report Controls

You can add a variety of controls to reports and labels. The following table describes the report controls you can add and use.

Report control	Displays
Field	Values evaluated from variables, expressions, or fields in tables and views. These values can differ every time you generate output for the report or label.
Label	Text that appears the same every time you generate output for the report or label.
Line	Straight horizontal or vertical lines.
Rectangle	Boxes and borders.
Rounded Rectangle	Boxes with rounded corners, borders, circles, and ovals.
Picture/OLE Bound	Picture files or contents of General fields.

In This Section

• How to: Add Field Controls to Reports
  Describes how to add Field controls to reports and labels.

• How to: Specify Expressions in Field Controls
  Describes how to use expressions in Field controls to display values and data from fields.

• How to: Specify Data Types for Field Controls
  Describes how to specify the type of data in Field controls and appropriate formatting settings for the data type.

• Format Expressions for Field Controls
  Explains format expressions that you can specify for formatting output from Field controls.

• How to: Perform Calculations in Field Controls
  Describes how to specify that a type of cumulative calculation be applied to a Field control to determine the rendered value.

• How to: Add Label Controls to Reports
  Describes how to add Label controls to reports and labels.

• How to: Add Shapes to Reports
  Describes how to add shape controls, such as Line and Rectangle controls, to reports and labels.

• How to: Add Pictures to Reports
  Describes how to add pictures to reports and labels.

• How to: Add General Fields to Reports
  Describes how to add the contents of General fields to reports and labels.

Related Sections

• Managing Report Controls
  Describes manipulating report controls, for example, to select multiple controls as a group, resize them, and change their alignment and relative position to each other.

• Configuring Report Controls
  Describes setting format options for report controls.

• Working with Reports
  Introduces Visual FoxPro reports and labels and how to include them in your applications.