Friday, March 9, 2012

How to create a cover page

This seems like it should be a very simple task. I need to create a cover page that appears as the first page of all my reports. It contains a confidentiality statement and I don't want any other report information on this page. I created the cover page in a separate report to be used as a subreport in any report that needs the statement included. However, I have searched all over the Web (including this forum) but cannot find any info on how to actually create a cover page. Is this even possible with RS?

Thanks,

Jesse

You can just create a report with no datasets, just static textboxes for the confidentiality text, and use it as the subreport. Are there any other specific things you are looking for?|||

Well, yes. I planned on using it as a subreport. Its just a matter of how to place the subreport on the other reports. Won't the subreport appear on all the other pages of the report.

I guess my actual question is how do I make content appear on first page only and have nothing else on the first page (in effect, a cover page)?

|||You can put the sub-report outside any list,table or matrix - controls at top of the content-pane (maybe the name is "textcontent" in en-version), so it just shows at the beginning of the report. setting "page break at end" for the subreport will take care that only your sub-report cover-page is on the first page..
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Yep, that did the trick. Thanks.

Jesse

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