Tutorial Report Mill

ReportMill TutorialTemplate Design BasicsThis tutorial provides a quick introduction to ReportMill's basic features. Specifically, it shows how to design a template, bind to an XML datasource, format data, group, sort and generate a professional report in a matter of minutes.Table of Contents Page Headers/Footers Substitution Keys XML Based Template Design List Keys and Tables Tables Formatting Table Grouping Table Sorting The Attributes Panel The Inspector Panel App Server IntegrationPage Headers/FootersOverviewReportMill's core is a page layout application, providing instant familiarity with template design basics. Users can simply draw page headers/footers, cover/summary pages, etc., using the common tools: Selection Line segment Rectangle (with rounding) Oval (with sweep, start angle) Text (with powerful rich text editing) Polygon (click to add points) Star (really any n-sided symmetric polygon) Pencil (with curve fitting)Additionally, images, such as company logos can be added to a template via drag and drop. ReportMill accepts images in many formats: GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF.Step 1: Select the text tool, click in the upper left corner of the page and type "Movies Database".Step 2: Use the mouse to select the text you've just typed in (or the menu Edit->Select All), then bring up the font panel using the menu Tools->Font Panel (or use the menu accelerator, control-t). Select a font, font size, font style that appeals to ...