Re: Reports 6.0 - Re-post!

In article <7qoums$m5e$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   Nandakumar <N.Kumar_at_rocketmail.com> wrote:
> hi
>
> can someone clarify certain things about Reports 6.0?
>
> To my understanding, a report template can only define the FOLLOWING
> ATTRIBUTES, in various styles like Default, Form Like etc.
>
> Color (for forground and background), font, font size attributes
> associated with DATA_FIELDS and of three data types -DATE, CHAR,
NUMBER
> and textual BOILER_PLATES.
>
> Positional Relationships between the fields and boilerplates and
> frames of different sort.
>
> Can we do (define) any other attribute in the REPORT TEMPLATES?
>
> Because, i would like to define the attributes like Maximum size of
the
> fields, type of expansion associated with fields etc. I get a feeling
> these should be possible here with the templates. I could see that
when
> i change a template to a report the type of expansion changes to
fields
> (field boxes appear in different lengths from the previous look). This
> is just not possible if the REPORT ONLY stores the type of expansion
> attribute as in this case the report is same before and after the
> template was changed.
>
> I would appreciate if someone could tell me how to set the type of
> expansion attribute to fields, within a template!
>
> One more thing!
>
> my report is having two parts in MAIN SECTION. First part contains a
> title and the parameters passed from the PARAMETER FORM and the second
> part contains the query result.
>
> When there is no result (no data) for the query, the SUMMARY COLUMN
> appears on top of the first part. I LITERALLY TRIED ALL THAT I COULD
TO
> AVOID THIS OVERLAP. But whenever i use the REPORT WIZARD on this
report
> (for any required change) and APPLY, the OVERLAP reccurs. Any help??
>
> Thanks
> & Regards
> --
> Nandakumar
> (N.Kumar_at_rocketmail.com)
>
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