A points layer is used to show point location markers, one marker per each record of the data source. A marker's location is specified either by a Longitude/Latitude pair, or by a MapLocation, as described in Spatial Locations. The following points describe important aspects of the points layer.

• Data access: when a points layer is processed at run time, the record source (either the layer's own RecordSource if specified, or the report's record source filtered by the current group) is looped through, and a mark is drawn for each data record.
• Visual Styles: the way point markers look is determined by the applied marker style. A points layer provides a default MarkerStyle property that allows to specify markers' shape, color and so on. Additionally, a MarkerStyleExpr expression may be specified, in which case at runtime it will be evaluated for each data record, and if a matching marker style is found in the MarkerStyles collection of the current map, or failing that of other maps in the report, that style will be applied instead of the default. (As described above, a style expression should evaluate to a string matching a style name in the styles collection.)
• Clustering: when several point markers are located close to one another they may be "clustered" together into a single marker. That marker always shows the number of clustered point markers it represents. The visual style of the cluster marker may differ from the style of the point markers, and may even vary depending on the number of points it represents. Cluster styles are specified by the points layer's ClusterStyles collection, if more than one styles are provided the specific style is determined by the cluster size. Relevant points layer properties are: ClusterDistance, ClusterDistribution and ClusterStyles.
• Tracking: if the Track property is True, automatic centering and zooming includes all layer's points.