Report Bands are used for placing objects (such as data, text, titles, etc.) on a report.   Bands are located in a predetermined position on the output page.  For example, when placing an object in the “PageHeader” band we tell the report engine that the given object must be displayed at the top of each page in the finished report. Similarly, objects in the “PageFooter” band are displayed at the bottom of each page. 

When you click on the Report Bands icon  on the Designer Menu Bar the following menu appears:

The Vertical bands sub menu has the following items:

The basic bands needed in most reports are as follows: 

1. PageHeader  Displayed at the very top of each page.
2. PageFooter  Displayed at the very bottom of each page.
3. ReportTitle  Displayed at the top of the first page only.  The position of the ReportTitle band can be before or after the PageHeader band, depending on the page's TitleBeforeHeader property found in the object properties after clicking on any free space on the page.
4. ReportSummary  Displayed in the free space at the very end of the report.
5. Data bands They are several types of data bands.  Data bands are used to report on data from the DMS tables (such as Order Number, Job Identification, etc.) and to report on Variables.