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  1. How to Create a Checkbox in Your Report?

    Often a picture says more than a 1000 words... Well, a checkbox is not a picture but if well used it can draw the same kind of attention to the reader of the report results. Assume you want a checkbox on results of your Visual Report Writer report, how could you do this?

    First look at the following screenshot that shows what I mean with using a checkbox in your report output.

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  2. A Line Around Your Report

    In this short blog I want to show you how you can make a line around the output of your Visual Report Writer report. Visual Report Writer does not have a box - or a line - object that can go over multiple sections. The development team has granted to need for such a feature and will implement this via a page layer. In general: objects should not go over sections.

    A Fake Box
    What is a box? A box is a rectangle consisting of two horizontal and two vertical lines. This means it is ...
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