Notes

• After you develop a form that contains the specifications you plan to use for your report, use LAYOUT to generate a sample report before putting any data into it.

  You can use your sample form to display a report with various characters representing the data. If there are no breaks in the report, the following characters are displayed:

  X

  Character data

  0

  Numeric data

  If the report contains breaks, the levels are shown using the following characters:

  A

  Character data in first break

  1

  Numeric data in first break

  B

  Character data in second break

  2

  Numeric data in second break

  After you've seen what your form will look like, you can make changes to it without running a query.

  The LAYOUT command creates and imports its data in QMF (binary) data format. This format is described in Developing QMF Applications.