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Almost all reports have the following standard elements:

A Report header. Typically, this is the establishment name, business address etc. The report header is printed only on the first page of the report.

The page header. This generally consists of the report title, e.g. "Payroll Summary" and a date. This page header is printed on every page of the report.

The Data Section. The page header is followed by one or more tabular data sections. For instance, a payroll summary may include employee names and their salaries grouped by their department. There may be several sections, one for each department. Each group may be followed by a summary section, summarizing the data for that group.

PageFooter. The data section is followed by a page footer. This page footer generally consists of a page number. The page footer is generally printed on every page.

Report Footer. The page footer is optionally followed by the Report footer. This report footer is printed only on the last page.

The data report designer is a simple data report creation application. This initial release allows a user to designe simple single query reports based on an SQlite database. It allows the user to create a report header and a detail section. The page header, page footer and report footer sections are under development.