Printing Reports

Reports|( Rim's flexible report writer lets you produce sophisticated reports on your database. You have complete control over page headers, footers, and detail lines. You can combine data from several tables in a single report. And you can alter the format of the report based on the actual content of individual rows in the database.

Before learning to use the report writer you should be familiar with the Rim commands described in the previous chapter. In particular, you must thoroughly understand the "select" command.

Subsections How a report is generated Variables "report" "select" "print" Nested selections Headers and footers Conditional processing—"if" Repeating statements—"while" Forcing a new page Procedures Setting parameters A `"run"' command