Working with Reports

After collecting and organizing data in your application, you can design, create, and add reports to your application project. To create a report, follow these general steps:

1. Determine the type of report you want to create.

2. Create the report page layout.

3. Modify and customize the page layout file.

4. Include and manage data for your report.

5. Set output options for your report.

6. Run the report.

In This Section

• Reports in Visual FoxPro
  Introduces reports and labels in Visual FoxPro.

• Considerations for Creating Reports
  Offers some best practices when creating reports and labels.

• Working with Data in Reports
  Describes how to provide and manage data for reports and labels.

• How to: Create Reports (Visual FoxPro)
  Explains how to create reports.

• How to: Create Labels
  Explains how to create labels.

• How to: Open Reports and Labels
  Explains how to open existing reports and labels.

• Report Layout and Design
  Describes aspects of setting up and organizing page layouts for reports and labels.

• Running Reports
  Describes how to generate output from reports and labels.

• Distributing Reports with Applications
  Discusses considerations for distributing reports in your application.

• Extending Report Functionality in Visual FoxPro
  Discusses ways you can leverage Visual FoxPro reporting extensibility features.

Reference

• Report Wizard
  Makes it possible for you to create reports quickly using a single free table or database table or view.

• One-To-Many Report Wizard
  Makes it possible for you to create a report quickly using tables with a parent-child relationship.

• Label Wizard
  Makes it possible for you to create labels quickly.

• Report Designer
  Describes the user interface of the Report Designer.

• Label Designer
  Describes the user interface of the Label Designer.

• Language Reference (Visual FoxPro)
  Provides a list of language reference topics in alphabetical order.

Related Sections

• Working with Data
  Describes how to create effective applications with indexes, tables, and databases.

• Creating Applications
  Discusses how to create a Visual FoxPro application, which may include one or more databases, a main program that sets up the application's system environment, and a user interface comprised of forms, toolbars, and menus.

• Working with Projects
  Defines a project configuration and a group of files that produce a program or final binary file or files.

• Application Planning
  Provides useful information about how the decisions you make during the planning phase impact how you create elements of the application.