Using Report Templates to Reduce Report Creation Effort

So far this chapter has focused on new features and functions that can be used to create templates. Templates can accomplish many of the more intense designer-related tasks, including

• Conditional formatting

• Field highlighting

• Page headers and footers

• Charting standards

• Lines, boxes, and borders

• Color standards

• Logos and images

• Web sites, hyperlinks, and e-mail addresses

• Standard custom functions

• Repository objects

• Locking size or position of any object

• Special fields