Insert a page header in a form-based report
Generates a page header in a Word or PDF report. A template associated with this component defines its fixed content and format and holes for filling the header with generated content. You can use this component to generate up to three types of headers per section: one for the first page, one for odd pages, and one for even pages.
You can define your report’s page headers in templates.
When you assign a template that defines headers to your report’s
Report Form or a Subform
component, the Report
Generator creates a Page Footer
component for
each page footer defined in each page layout defined by the template.
It appends the page footer components that it creates for a particular
template-defined page layout to the page layout component that it
generates for that template-defined layout.
In addition to defining page headers in your templates, you can define them directly in the Report Explorer. For example, you can:
Create page layout components in the Report Explorer and add header components to them.
Add headers to layouts defined in your templates.
Change the templates assigned to headers defined in your report templates.
The Report Generator generates a Template Hole
component
for each hole defined by a page header template. Every header has
at least one hole component, a #start#
component.
You can define additional holes in the template that defines the header.
You can add content to a header by appending components to the header
holes in your report setup. The Report Generator generates header
content by executing its hole components when it generates the parent
page layout. The generated content applies to all pages of the specified
header type. This means that you cannot use the Report Explorer to
generate the header content for specific pages. You can, however,
use Word and PDF fields, such as page number fields, in header templates
to generate page numbers and other kinds of content that varies from
page to page in a section.
To understand how layouts work, see Define Page Layouts in a Form-Based Report Setup.
The options indicate the type of page the header applies to and the template that defines the header’s form.
Page type: The type of page in this page layout that the header applies to.
Default
: Header for odd pages of
the section, even pages if you do not specify an even-page footer,
and the first page if you do not specify a first-page footer.
Even
: Header for even pages of
the section.
First
: Header for the first page
of the section.
Template type: Specify the template that defines the header content.
Library
: Select Library
to
select a template from a document part library. When you select this
option, the Source Library Options appear.
File
: Select File
to
select a template file as the source of the header content.
Page Layout
: This option
appears if the Page Header
component was based
on a header in the template assigned to a Report Form or Subform
component
in your report setup.
Source Library Options: If you
select Library
as the template type, you
can set these options.
Report form library: Template library of the template file assigned to this report setup’s Report Form component.
Parent subform library: Template
library used by the Subform
that contains this Header
component.
This option appears only if this component is a descendant of a Subform
component
and the parent subform uses a library as the source of its template.
Other library: Template library of a specified template file.
Template: If the template type
is File
, this option specifies the name
of the template file that defines the header associated with this
component. If the template type is Library
,
this option specifies the template file that contains the template
library to use as the source for this component’s template.
This option appears only if you select Library
as
your template type and Other library as the source
of the library.
Library template name: Name of a template that resides in the template library used by this component.
Yes, inserts a page header
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