Multiple-Page Reports
The final goal of most reporting systems is the presentation of data in a useful way. One aspect to this goal is how to handle reports containing so much data that they are no longer useful. This could be because of the slow speed of report creation or the large output. Both of these factors reduce the usefulness of a report and might frustrate the end user.
One way to handle this problem is through the use of a report that pages through the data. Such a report displays a subset of the entire report at any time. Each page can be sorted by any of the columns on the report. This results in the report being generated more quickly and presenting a more manageable set of data to view.
The output of the paging report is an HTML ...
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