Adding a new report

The report canvas is the work area for report creation. Initially, the report canvas represents a single page, outlined with solid lines. As you add components, additional pages are automatically added to the report canvas when the components no longer fit on the initial page.

The report canvas also provides the following functionality:

• When you add components to a page, they are positioned from left to right, top-to-bottom.
• When you add a component that would span a page, a new page is added automatically to the canvas. A page is also added if a component that you move extends beyond the bottom of a page.
• When you delete a component, the remaining components are not repositioned.
• If all components are removed from the last page, the page disappears from the report canvas.

Use the following steps to start a new report by opening and naming a blank report canvas.

1. Click New Report to open a blank report canvas.
2. Click the report title (by default, Untitled.), type a new name for the report and click outside the field to apply the title change.
3. (Optional) Click uncategorized. To select a category for the report, click one or more check boxes, or type a name in the New Category box and click the Plus icon to create a new category. For more information about working with report categories, see Categorizing reports.

4. (Optional) To choose one of the portrait or landscape page types, click the report Settings icon and then click the Page Settings in the menu. Choose one of the portrait or landscape page types.

   The default page type is Letter Portrait.

   For more information about page settings, see Setting page orientation and size.

5. Click the Save icon.

   You are identified as the author at the top of the report and in the other RC-Reporter pages or dialog boxes that list report names.

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