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Figure 17-27.
The completed template
In the real world, you will likely need more than one template. You may need one for portrait and the other
for landscape page layouts for printing. You also may have different report templates for different projects or
departments. We think you get the idea, so let's complete the template we started in the next exercise.
exerCise 17-2. Completing a report template
in this exercise, you finish configuring the report template that we worked on in Exercise 17-1. in addition,
you configure different options within the template such as renaming the report items, creating report
variables, configuring expressions, configuring placeholders, and configuring the footer.
renaming the report items
Report items should be renamed before they are worked with programmatically. Let's do that now.
1.
Access the Document outline window using the menu items View ➤ other windows
➤ Document outline.
2.
when the Document outline window appears, right-click each individual report item
3.
Creating report Variables
we use a couple of report variables in the expressions in the next section. so, we first need to create those
variables.
