For most presentation styles, the DataWindow painter Design view is divided into areas called bands. Each band corresponds to a section of the DataWindow object.
DataWindow objects with these presentation styles are divided into four bands: header, detail, summary, and footer. Each band is identified by a bar containing the name of the band above the bar.
These bands can contain any information you want, including text, drawing controls, graphs, and computed fields containing aggregate totals.
Design view for a tabular DataWindow object
| Band | Includes |
|---|---|
| Header | Information at the top of every screen, such as the name of the report or current date |
| Detail | Data from the database or other data source |
| Summary | Summary information that follows all data, such as totals and counts |
| Footer | Information that appears at the bottom of every page or screen, such as page number and page count |