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.