Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Programming Interfaces

> ## Report basics

> The event-driven model provides a highly flexible environment for interactive applications. Reports collect and organize static data without interaction from the user, so traditional top-down programming techniques work better for this task. Typically, you can integrate a report-generating procedure into an event-driven application using a trigger with a `RUN` statement attached to a button or menu command (covered later).

> The components of a basic report procedure include:

> - A special type of frame, called a down frame, that can hold more than one iteration of data.

> - Frame phrase options to format the frame and included widgets.

> - Text widgets.

> - Format phrase options to format individual widgets.

> - An iterating control block.

> - An output statement.

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