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The Parent Body - An Overview A form body is a grouped collection of field objects. It might be used to represent the rows and columns of data in a report or the fields that make up a label. Form Bodies come in three styles:
This style of form body is normally used when you wish to allocate a fixed area of the form page to hold rows and columns of data. A typical example of this type of structure can be found in invoices and similar documents. This type of document typically has three sections of fixed size: a top section (the header), a body section, and a bottom section (or footer).
This style of body is ideal for creating reports. The length of the body is determined by the amount of data that requires printing. Form objects placed below a Report Style body are shifted down the page or moved to the next available page. The body of the report may extend over as many pages as are required to list all the data. As with typical reports, form objects above the Report style body (the header section) is only printed once, at the top of the first page. Form objects below the body (the footer section) are also only printed once; at the end of the report. Keep in mind that any objects anchored (placed so that they touch) the margins of the form, will be printed on every page. You can therefore design a form that has elements that are printed on every page and elements that are only printed on the first or last page, depending on where they are positioned.
In free form style, one record (or row of data) is displayed per body. Multiple bodies are used if record information needs to be displayed at more than one location on the page. Free form style is usually ideal for label or certificate printing. Like fixed form style bodies, any objects placed around the body are printed on each page.
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