Add Page Numbers

The tutorial describes how to add page numbers to your reports.

Add Page Numbers

Do the following to add page numbers to a report:

• Create a PageFooterBand in your report. To do this, right-click anywhere in the report designer, and in the context menu point to Insert Band, and then click PageFooter.

  

• Drop the PageInfo control from the Toolbox to the PageFooter band.

  

• To change the control's display format, click its smart tag, and in the invoked actions list, specify the TextFormatString property (e.g., Page {0} of {1}, to display the current page number out of the total number of pages).

  

The following image illustrates the resulting report:

Add Page Numbers for Groups

Do the following to make your report display page numbers for groups or detail reports:

• Add the GroupFooter band. To do this, right-click anywhere on the report's surface, and in the invoked menu, point to Insert Band and click GroupFooter.

  

  Note

  You can force the group header and/or the group footer to be repeated on each page, using the GroupBand's RepeatEveryPage property.

• Next, force each new group to start on a separate page. Otherwise, group page numbers will be calculated incorrectly.

  To do this, select the Group Footer, and set its PageBreak property to AfterBand.

  

• Drop the PageInfo control from the Toolbox onto the GroupFooter (or GroupHeader) band.

  

• Select the created control, and set its RunningBand property to GroupHeader1.

  

  Tip

  You can use the TextFormatString and PageInfo properties to adjust the way the control represents its contents.

The following image illustrates the resulting report: