By: Ray Barley
Overview
The Report Footer is the bottom section of a report. It may contain the page number, execution date and time, a confidentiality notice, and so on. This topic will walk through the steps for adding the report footer to a report.
Explanation
We will continue with the report that we began in this section. Our report has the header section completed and looks like this:
When you create a new report by selecting Blank Report from either the Getting Started dialog or the New Report or Dataset dialog, the footer is added automatically; notice the ExecutionTime at the bottom of the page. To add a Report Footer you can click Footer on the Insert tab of the Report Builder ribbon and select Add Footer from the popup menu:
If the footer already exists, the popup menu will have the Remove Footer option.
Let's make these changes to the report footer:
- Delete the execution time (we have it in the header)
- Add a confidentiality statement
To add the confidentiality statement drag a TextBox from the Insert tab onto the report footer area and drop it in the middle of the report footer area; set the value to "CONFIDENTIAL - ABC COMPANY". After dropping the TextBox onto the report footer area, you can start typing. The report design looks like this:
Click Run on the Home tab to preview the report:
We will now move on to adding content to the Report Body.
Additional Information
- Refer to How to: Add or Remove a Page Header or Footer on TechNet for additional details.
