The Dbase Reports Book

Book excerpt: The dBASE Report Designer can be a daunting tool, but with this book you can learn to use it to your best advantage, and create professional looking reports. Included are the following topics: * Custom Reports and Classes * Understanding the Report Engine and Designer's Event Model * Learning About the Report Object Event Sequences * Grouped Reports * Multi-Table Reports * Calculated Fields and Lookup Fields * Working with Labels * Using a ReportViewer * Cross-Tab Reports And much more is included. The dBASE Reports Book teaches not only how to use the Report Designer to achieve your goals, but also to work with the dBASE Programming Language (dBL) to work with and enhance the functionality of your reports. This is a companion to The dBASE Book, written by the author in 2005.