1. Actuate ERD-Pro
About Sections

2. About Sections
 A component which determines the logical structure of
the report.
 Sections receive the incoming data from the data row
and determine which components to instantiate or to
create the appropriate output.
 Five different types of section available
 Report Section
 Group Section
 Parallel Section
 Sequential Section
 Conditional Section

3. Report Section
 Initiates and maintains the data stream to retrieve
information from a data source.
 contains components to display the retrieved
information.
 Can combine a report section in the following ways.
 Nested Report.
 Sequential Report.
 Parallel Report.
 Conditional Report.

4. Report Section
 Report Section can contain the following components:
 A connection in the connection slot.
 Data stream in the DataStream slot.
 Frame in the Before, After, Page-Header, or Page-
Footer slot.
 Frame or section in the Content slot.
 Sub page in the Sub-page slot.

5. Group Section
 A component that groups data on a common field and
contains components to display that data.
 Group section is to accomplish the following task:
 Build a grouped report.
 Sort data in a report with a query data stream.
 Accumulate and display totals or other summary
data for a group of data.
 Associate headers and footers with a group of data.

6. Sort Key
 Every group section corresponds to a sort key column,
which is one of the columns returned by the data
stream.
 To set the key for a group section, set the section's Key
property to the appropriate column name.
 On running the report, Actuate modifies the ORDER BY
clause to match the Group Keys.
 Can specify whether sorting for each key is done in
ascending or descending order.
 Specifying GroupInterval and Groupon properties.

7. Working of Group Section
 On receiving the data, the group section checks
whether the sort key has changed.
 Change in the value indicates a end of one group and
start on next group.
 instantiates each of the components it contains in
sequence.

8. About sequential sections
 A component that contains several frames or sections
that display or print in a specified order.
 Sequential section is used to accomplish the following
task:
 Include several reports to display or print data from
several queries.
 Include several reports with the same query to print
different reports based on the same data but with
different controls.
 Provides three slots viz, connection, content and
sub-page.

9. About Conditional sections
 A component that uses a conditional expression to
determine which of two frames or sections to display or
print.
 Conditional section is used to accomplish the following
task:
 The user who runs the report may enter parameters
to choose which content to print.
 The user may choose between two subreports to
display data from different queries.
 The user may choose between frames depending on
data in the data row.

10. Specifying an Expression
 To specify the conditional expression, set the section's
IfExp property to a Boolean expression that returns
True or False.
 Actuate evaluates this expression to determine what to
print for that section.
 If the expression in IfExp is True, the component in the
Then slot is used. If the expression is False, the
component in the Else slot is used.
 The expression can refer to parameters, global
variables, or data row columns.
 To use the columns in the expression, the conditional
section should be placed in the content slot.

11. About Parallel section
 A Component that contains two or more sub-reports
that are displayed or printed simultaneously in different
flows on the same page.
 Used to present different reports side by side.

12. Assigning flows
 The page component used by a parallel section must
have enough flows to print all of the sub-reports. (i.e)
if there is three subreports in a parallel section, then
the page must contain three flows.
 Assign the flow name in the FlowName property in the
corresponding report section.