### Creating a blank report

Assume that you have already opened a page report to create a blank report tab within it:

1. Do either of the following to open the New Report Tab dialog.
   - Click File > New > Page Report Tab on the menu bar.
   - On the report tab bar, right-click an existing report tab in the report and click Insert on the shortcut menu.
2. Specify the title of the report tab, select the Blank Report layout and click OK.
3. In the Choose Data dialog, specify the dataset on which the report tab will be built.
   - To build the report tab on a new dataset created from the catalog resources, check the New radio button, and then select the data source of the dataset. If the given resources are not what you want, click the <Add xxx...> item to create one. And if you choose to create the dataset from a query, you can click the Modify button to further modify the query if required.
   - To build the report tab on an existing dataset in the report, check the Existing radio button, and then select the dataset as required (click the Modify button to modify the selected dataset if necessary). You can also click the <Add Dataset...> item to create one as required.
4. When done, click OK and a blank report tab will then be created. You can then insert the required objects into the report tab as described in the Components chapter.