Patient Form demo: Using the watermark band to print predefined form elements.

This report creates a patient form (including all treatments applied to the patient). A watermark band is used to generate the form preprinted structure.

The Data Model

The table model in question consists of a list of patients, each with some general data like name, address, social security number. For each patient exists a list of treatments, the patient had to go through.

General structure of the report

This very simple report has a single level group definition. The report is grouped by the patient's ID and a pagebreak is enforced before a patient is printed.

The pre-printed form elements are kept in the watermark band. The watermark is printed after a new page has been opened but before the page header gets printed. It is the first band to be printed on each page. A watermarks always spans the complete page and cannot trigger a pagebreak.

Please note, that Watermark definitions are ignored for Table-Exports, like HTML or Excel.