More of this Feature • Page 1: Reports Overview • Page 2: What's in a report • Page 3: History of QR • Page 4: Band reports • Page 5: Calculated fields • Page 6: Sorting & Grouping • Page 8: QR components • Page 9: Without the QR

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   Label Reports
Label reports use only the detail band of QR for their placement. By choosing File\New\ from the menu and then clicking on the Form tab you can select a predesigned label report which will show you the basics. Be sure to change the units property in the Quick report component from Millimeters to inches if you are used to that measurement.

The width of each label is a calculated value coming from the number of columns the sheet of labels has. You can modify the spacing some by changing the value of the Column space which is in between each label but I recommend doing this only as a last resort. The length of the label can be set in the detail band's length. The other values describe the unprintable sections of the label form (Top, Left, Right, Bottom). Set the Paper size to your label sheet's type and the overall width and length will be handled for you. There are a couple of fields that do not work for labels in the Quick report component.

1. The Page frame creates a frame around the entire page, not each label L and therefore is pretty useless.

2. All the other bands are not needed and should not be used for labels.

3. If you change the paper size to custom and then preview the output, it may not look like it should when you print it. This is because the preview defaults to letter size even though you have changed it to custom for printing.

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