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Report Designer - Label Templates

Summary

The Label Templates option will divide the Detail band into sections, such as the typical size of a business card, cassette label, disk label, or address label. You can enter components into the reduced area such as Address1, Address2 and Address3 and have multiple labels printed per page.

Example

The following example will create business cards on A4 sized paper, and display each employee's name, position, address and a company image.

You are editing a report definition.

  1. Click the Data tab.
  2. In the main menu, click File | New | Query Wizard, and query the Employee table.
  3. Click the Design tab.
  4. In the main menu, click File | New | Label Templates.

    The Label Templates screen appears.

  5. Complete the following tab pages:

    Printer Information: Enter the appropriate settings for your printer.

    Products: Select a paper size, and a template to base the labels on. The options that you select appear in a preview on the right-hand side.

  6. Click OK.
  7. You can now start designing your label in the Detail space provided.

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