Parameters allow you to change selection criteria and calculations at runtime. Your can use them to replace single literal values in a query, as well as expressions in any part of a query. Links used to establish parent-child relationships between queries and groups via matching columns. Links also enable you to specify an SQL clause and arithmetic condition in the relationship. After you have defined the data model, your specify the report's layout, which can be defined as the positioning of objects as they should appear in the report output.
Fields act as placeholders for columns.
They are used to defined the formatting attributes for all columns displayed in the report. Boilerplate consists of text and graphics that appear in a report every time it is run. Anchors enable your to fasten an edge of one object to an edge of another object, ensuring their relative positioning. If you do NOT have the table properly defined, see the TA for your lab section. He should be able to instruct you to a SQL command file that will create the proper tables and populate them with the sample data.