Using the Report Designer

You can use the Report Designer to edit existing reports, as well as create your own reports from scratch. This topic describes the most basic tasks you may encounter when editing a report in the Report Designer.

• Save a report
• Manually update report output
• Change element layout in your report
• Add or modify static information in your report
• Delete report elements
• Display values from a database (bind report elements to data)
• Use mail merge in report elements
• Change value formatting of report elements
• Change fonts and colors of report elements
• Change or apply data sorting to a report
• Change or apply data filtering to a report
• Change or apply data grouping to a report
• Add totals to a report
• Create or modify watermarks of a report
• Add page numbers and system information to a report
• Add calculated fields to a report
• Add parameters to a report