8.1. Configuring Headers and Footers

Page headers and footers can be configured so that they are displayed and printed on all pages or omitted from the first and/or last pages. Unlike many other reporting tools, there is no designated report header or footer. This is because the report body will act as a header or footer, depending on where you place data region items. If you were to place a table an inch below the top of the report body, this would give you a report header 1 inch tall. And since there is no set limit to the number of data regions or other items you can add to a report (and you can force page breaks at any location), all of the space above, below, and in-between these items is essentially header and footer space.

You have a lot of flexibility for displaying header and footer content. In additional to the standard report and page headers and footers, data region sections can be repeated on each page, creating additional page header and footer content. Figure 8-1 shows a table report with each of the header and footer areas labeled.