Layout

The Report Designer provides a wide range of layout options.  Use page headers and footers to create repeating elements at the top and bottom of each page, and set properties in data region controls to define how they will display data in the context of page layout.

A report consists of one or more report sections - in the Report Explorer the first is identified by default as ReportSection1. Each section has its own page setup and its own optional page header and footer, so a single report can, for example, present a portrait summary section followed by a landscape section for a wide Tablix. The topics below cover the layout options section by section:

• Using Page Headers and Footers: define what happens at the top and bottom of each page of the report
• Set Page Size, Margins, and Orientation - learn about the options to control page layout properties such as page size, page margins, and page orientation.
• Keep Groups Together in Data Regions - you can keep the contents of a group together on a single page by setting the Keep Together on one page if possible option (Table group) or the KeepTogether property (Tablix row group).
• Manage Page Breaks in Data Regions - you can control page breaks in data groups of data regions by using the NewPage property for data regions and its combination with the PageBreakAtStart, PageBreakAtEnd, and BreakLocation properties. These properties help you tune page breaks after or before a data group in your report and on which page to continue displaying the report content.