Designing the Page Layout

Reports are two-dimensional views of multidimensional data. You can use page layout commands to incorporate additional dimensions that are defined as nested groups of columns or rows on a page, or additional pages in the report.

The page layout is composed of headings that make up the columns and rows of a page. You define the basic layout of a report using page, row, and column data extraction commands combined with specific member selections.

Each component of page layout has a different formatting command:

<PAGE 
<COLUMN 
<ROW

In addition, the <ASYM and <SYM commands override the default method of interpreting the column dimension member lists, and produce either an asymmetric or symmetric report format.

See Formatting Page, Column, and Row Headings.