Creating Reports

Reports are the foundation of business intelligence and business analytics, enabling you to gain valuable insights and make improved business decisions. In , you can create and edit reports using the Report canvas. When you create a new report, you use the Report Wizard. In report mode, you can create and style simple or complex reports, add data to the Report canvas, and style that data creating a graphical representation of the report page. This allows you to view how the report displays at run time.

This topic provides an overview of reporting, the types of reports you can create with , how to launch the Report Wizard to create reports, and a sample GUI procedure, with its associated syntax, that you can use to create each type of report.

For information on the Report Wizard, see Launching the Report Wizard.

For information on the tabs and panels that are available when you are developing reports in the Report canvas, see Accessing Reporting Components With the App Studio Ribbon.