About the Canvas in the Designer

The canvas is the workspace for building a report.

You can change the report view by clicking the icons at the top of the canvas. You can access the report views by clicking beside the icon. For more information about report views, see Choose a Report View.

Above the canvas, there is an Auto-update check box. You can clear this check box so that you can design your report without waiting for a query to finish. When you are finished designing your report, select the Auto-update check box to run and refresh all of the queries.

There is an area at the top of the canvas on which you can drag and drop filter controls and then categories to create report-level prompts. If you do not want to see this area, clear the Show report prompts check box. For more information, see Use a Control to Create a Report Prompt.

A report can have multiple sections or info windows, which can be accessed by using the tabs at the top of the canvas.

There is an area below the section tabs on which you can drag and drop filter controls and then categories to create section prompts. For more information, see Use a Control to Create a Section Prompt.