Setting Protection for Reports

Report protection allows you to distribute report layouts with your application, enable your users to customize or extend the layouts within constraints that you set at design time.

Protection settings include:

• Restricting access to certain menu options.

• Restricting access to the property dialog boxes of specific report elements.

• Restricting the ability to resize bands.

• Restricting the ability to move, edit, or delete report controls.

In This Section

• Report Protection Flags
  Provides an overview of report protection flags.

• How to: Protect Report Layouts
  Describes how to configure protection settings that affect the entire report or label layout, when modifying the layout in protected mode.

• How to: Protect Report Bands
  Describes how to configure protection settings on individual report bands, when modifying the layout in protected mode.

• How to: Protect Report Controls
  Describes how to configure protection settings on individual report controls, when modifying the layout in protected mode.

Related Sections

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

• How to: Add Design-time Captions to Field Controls
  Describes how to configure a control so that it shows in the designer with alternative text, rather than the actual field expression.

See Also

Reference

Protection Tab, Report Properties Dialog Box (Report Builder)
Protection Tab, Report Band Properties Dialog Box (Report Builder)
Protection Tab, Report Control Properties Dialog Box (Report Builder)