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   When planning an application, the definition of report formats, used for
   printing the data inserted, is another fundamental step in the
   development.

   dBsee 4 allows to interactively define the formats of the reports that
   will be printed, and provides two pre-defined report types.

   When in design, the reports are defined using a structure made up of
   bands. The bands define the various sections that make up the report. For
   example, we can define a Report Banner, i.e. the report's first page;
   a page header, a section that is printed on top of each new page; a
   body. We can also group the printed data according to their value (ex.
   print all the clients in London, then all those from New York, etc.)

   A report management can be created by defining a menu label of type
   Reports. Two types of reports are available: Listing and
   Invoice-like. The differences between the two will be examined later
   in this chapter. After having defined a report management, it is possible
   to examine the objects that will make up the report by activating the
   Objects environment, using the Objects button after being
   positioned on the menu label just defined.

   The Objects environment shows in the upper part of the screen the
   diagram of objects and files associated to the report with the eventual
   groupings. The bottom part of the screen will contain the frame displaying
   the information relative to the object, file and grouping currently being
   highlighted.

   This chapter is organised as follows:

     . the second section will examine the objects that can be used
       to define a report management, and the Query object used to filter the
       data;

     . the third section will illustrate the pre-defined report
       types;

     . a description of how virtual records function will be found
       in the fourth section;

     . lastly, the functionalities of the Objects environment
       when this is used to define report managements, will be described.