Setting Report Object Properties Using the Inspector Panel

Data type: String

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

This property is not available when the object is in a crosstab or the Position property value is static.

Data type: Float

This property is not available when the object is in a crosstab or the Position property value is static.

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Data type: String

Specify the default font color for the new text you type in the object. Select a color from the drop-down list or select Custom to define a color in the Color Picker dialog box. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color.

Data type: String

• Color
  Select to fill with a specified color. Then, specify the Background property.
• More Effects
  Select to specify either a gradient or an image as the fill effect in the Fill Effects dialog box.

Data type: Enumeration

Data type: String

• For performance concern, you should not set both Autofit and Word Wrap to true when the object is in a crosstab.

• For a table column, the Autofit property is in the Others category.

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

• When 1000 <= value < 10^15, Report uses the following quantity unit symbols of the International System of Units to scale the values: K (10^3), M (10^6), G (10^9), and T (10^12).
• When 0 < value < 0.001 or value >= 10^15, Report uses scientific notation to scale the values.

The value auto means that the setting follows that of the parent data container.

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Enumeration

Data type: Integer

Data type: Enumeration

Data type: Integer

Data type: String

• For the BigDecimal data type, to avoid precision loss, you should type a prefix JRD when setting the Format property value.
• For the Number data type and when the Auto Scale in Number property value is true, the Format property applies to the integer part of the values after being scaled, but if the specified format conflicts with the Auto Scale in Number property, for example, the values display in percentage, then Server ignores the Auto Scale in Number property.

When you use a formula or edit an expression to control the locale, the return value should be the two-letter language and country codes as defined by ISO-639 and ISO-3166 in the format language_country, for example, de_DE.

Data type: String

Data type: Enumeration

• Select true if you don't want Report Engine to parse the HTML tag elements so they display exactly as what they are.
• Select false if you want Report Engine to transfer the HTML tag elements to the web browser so the web browser translates them into HTML.

The Convert HTML Tag property has higher priority than Ignore HTML Tag.

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Specify the maximum width of the text you want to display in the object. Type a numeric value to change the width.

This property often works together with the Auto Fit property. When you set Auto Fit of the object to "true" and the value of Maximum Width is not equal to 0, the text extends in the object until the width is this value.

Data type: Float

This property takes effect when you set Position of the object to absolute; but it does not work if the Word Wrap property of the object is true.

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: String

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Enumeration

For performance concern, you should not set both Autofit and Word Wrap to true when the object is in a crosstab.

Data type: Boolean

Data type: String

Data type: Float

Data type: Enumeration

Data Type: String

Specify whether to show cell borders in the crosstab.

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Enumeration

Data type: Enumeration

Specify whether to add a drop shadow effect to the border.

Data type: Boolean

Specify the color of the border shadow. Choose a color from the drop-down list, or select Custom to customize a color in the Color Picker dialog box. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color.

Data type: String

Data type: Enumeration

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Specify the field to bind with the label so you can use the label's shortcut menu to filter and sort records of the bound field at runtime. When you bind a label with a field, you can further set the label's Filterable and Sortable properties to "true" to display the corresponding buttons beside the label for easy filtering and sorting.

Data type: String

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

The property does not work if there is crosstab, text object, or chart in the panel, because these objects contain child-DBFields.

Specify whether to cache the value of the field instead of obtaining it repeatedly.

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Server enables this property when you have cleared "Forbid changing column" in the Panel category of the Options dialog box in Designer. You can use it to specify another field to substitute the current one. Choose the field from the drop-down list.

Data type: String

Default is false. Server will display the panel in the next page, when the panel spans vertically beyond the page.

This property applies only when you enable the page layout of the report, and if you run or export the report in the formats that support page layout, such as PDF and RTF.

Data type: Boolean

Use Current Block Index to specify the index of the data block you want to display. 0 means the first block index, 1 the second, and so on.

Data type: Integer

You can use the four properties together to control the data of the crosstab you want to display in the continuous page mode: Current Column Block Index, Current Row Block Index, Items per Column Block, and Items per Row Block. Current Column Block Index specifies the horizontal index of the data block. 0 means the first block index, 1 means the second, and so on.

Data type: Integer

Specify the data mapping file (without the locale part) you want to apply to the object for for NLS use. For example, if the data mapping file is Product_de_DE.properties, type Product in the value cell.

Data type: String

Specify whether to display the object as the default data component in the Apply To drop-down list of the Filter dialog box at runtime.

Data type: Boolean

In the same report, you can only set one data component's Default for Filter property to "true".

• <Server Setting>
  Select to load the detail information according to the Pop Up New Window for Links property in the Page Report Studio Profile dialog box on the Server Console.
• Same Frame
  Select to load the detail information into the same frame as the object.
• Whole Window
  Select to load the detail information into the full browser window.
• New Window
  Select to load the detail information into a new window. The window is not named.
• Parent Frame
  Select to load the detail information into the parent frame of the frame in which the object is.

Data type: String

Data type: String

Specify whether to enable the link that you have added on the object in the Excel output.

Data type: Boolean

Server does not provide this property when the DBField is in a crosstab in a web report.

Specify whether to enable the link that you have added on the object in the HTML output.

Data type: Boolean

Server does not provide this property when the DBField is in a crosstab in a web report.

Specify whether to enable the link that you have added on the object in the PDF output.

Data type: Boolean

Server does not provide this property when the DBField is in a crosstab in a web report.

By default, the property value is true. You can further specify the height and width of the frame for holding the object, by setting the two properties Navigation Height and Navigation Width. If later you resize the object, Server will reset the two properties to use the resized values. If the table contains more than one page, a page navigation bar specific to the table will be available under it. You can use the bar to view the pages you want.

Data type: Boolean

Specify whether to enable users to expand/collapse the column/row groups in the crosstab.

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

When you enable this property, depending on the properties of the parameter in the parameter control, Report will export the parameter control as follows:

• Report will export the selected values or text of the parameter as text while it will not export the icon or button for specifying the parameter value.
• If the parameter in the parameter control is of Boolean type, Report displays it as a checkbox in the parameter control. Then when you select the checkbox, Report will export it as , or as if you clear the checkbox.

Data Type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Enumeration

Data type: Boolean

Specify the filter commands that you want to display on the object's shortcut menu in Page Report Studio.

Data type: Integer

Data type: Boolean

Specify whether to show the detail information about the group when you select the object in Page Report Studio.

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Enumeration

Select true to hide the object. Server will still perform all formulas and calculations. You can also use a formula to control this property.

Data type: Boolean

When you set both the Invisible and Suppress properties of an object to true, Suppress has the higher priority.

Specify whether to display the object in the Apply To drop-down list of the Filter dialog box at runtime. Server disables this property when you set Default for Filter of the object to "true".

Data type: Boolean

Use Item per Block to specify the number of records in each data block.

Data type: Integer

You can use the four properties together to control the data of the crosstab you want to display in the continuous page mode: Current Row Block Index, Current Column Block Index, Items per Row Block, and Items per Column Block. Items per Column Block specifies the number of the column records in each data block.

Data type: Integer

You can use the four properties together to control the data of the crosstab you want to display in the continuous page mode: Current Row Block Index, Current Column Block Index, Items per Row Block, and Items per Column Block. Items per Row Block specifies the number of the row records in each data block.

Data type: Integer

Data type: String

Specify the target that you want to link the object to, which can be another report, a website, an email address, or a Blob data type field.

Data type: String

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

This property takes effect when Enable Navigation is true.

Data type: Float

This property takes effect when Enable Navigation is true.

Data type: Float

This property applies only when you enable the page layout of the report, and if you run or export the report in the formats that support page layout, such as PDF and RTF.

Data type: Boolean

Server displays this property when you use the DBField as a column/row field in a crosstab. You can use it to specify the field by which you want to sort the crosstab column/row header.

Data type: String

Data type: Enumeration

Data type: String

• static
  Select if you want to place the object at the location where you insert it. Server will hide or disable the X, Y, and other position-related properties. The preceding objects in the same container will affect the position of the object.
• relative
  Select if you want to place the object at an offset to the position where you insert it. Server determines the offset by the X and Y coordinate property values. Not all components support the relative position.
• absolute
  Select if you want to place the object at the position that you specify by dragging or by setting its X and Y coordinate property values.

Data type: Enumeration

This property only affects objects in a container, which is the report body, a table cell, or a tabular cell.

• Default
  Select if you want to calculate the values of the properties in the default location where they are.
• Page Header
  Select if you want to calculate the values of the properties in the page header.
• Page Footer
  Select if you want to calculate the values of the properties in the page footer.

Data type: Enumeration

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

For one detail panel which spans a large space vertically to display in several pages, Report supports the Repeat property if you want to see the group header information in each page. When the Repeat property is true and group header is visible, Server duplicates the group header on every page.

• When a page split occurs in the bottom blank part of the detail panel (or margins in the detail panel) and the Cross Page property in the detail panel is true, the output is: repeated group header + a slice of blank detail panel + group footer. It appears as though only group footers without any detail panel follow the repeated group header. In order to solve this problem, you can resize the detail panel.
• If you set the Repeat property to true in both outer group header and inner group header, Report treats the two group headers as a completely repeated object.
• If you set the outer and inner group headers to be one completely repeated object, then when the page can only hold the group headers or has no enough space for the group headers, Server does not duplicate both outer and inner group headers.

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

When the property is true, the table object containing overflow columns on subsequent pages inherits the same Y value in its container, so that it keeps the same number of records as the table in the original page. However, Server resets its X value to 0 for both static and absolute positions, to show as many columns as possible. The height of each table row for overflow columns is the same as the corresponding row height in the original page.

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

When you set both the Invisible and Suppress properties of an object to true, Suppress has the higher priority.

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Specify whether to suppress the field in the report when its value is null.

Data type: Boolean

For a vertical banded object, you can tile each set of records in the detail panel when viewing the report if you set this property to true and set the detail panel's width/height equal to or less than 1/2 that of the banded object. The detail panel width determines the width of each record tile.

You will find this property is useful when you are making a mail-label format report. You can insert a blank banded object in a report, then in the Inspector panel, select the detail panel, and set the properties:

Tile Detail Panel = true
Width = *** (The width of the detail panel. You can set this value according to the width of one column.)

Data type: Boolean

When the banded object's Autofit property is true, Server always treats the Tile Detail Panel property as false at runtime.

• true
  Select if you want to tile records first in the row direction and then in the column.
• false
  Select if you want to tile records first in the column direction and then in the row.

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Specify whether to apply the style group of the primary report to the linked report, when the object is linked to another report.

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

You cannot layer banded page header, page footer, or group footer panels beneath another panel.

Specify the separator for DBArray data. Type the delimiter in the value cell.

Data type: String

Data type: Enumeration

• Vertical
  Select if you want the Pattern List property value to take effect on the fields in the same columns, except for the total columns.
• Horizontal
  Select if you want the Pattern List property value to take effect on the fields in the same rows, except for the total rows.

Data type: Enumeration

Select true if you want to also apply alternating color to the footer, group headers, and group footers of the table. All table rows except the table header will use alternating color. It takes effect when the Show property is true.

Data type: Boolean

This property takes effect when the Show property is true.

Data type: String

Data type: Boolean

• The setting of the alternating line color function for crosstab can only take effect when all the aggregate fields in the crosstab have transparent background.

• Alternating color works as the background color and will overwrite the table rows' own background color.

• To make alternating color work in merged cells in group tables, you also need to set the background color of the merged cells to that of the alternating color.

Specify whether to display the column headers together with the data. When you enable this property, if the column headers happen to be at the bottom of a page, Server displays them together with the data on the next page.

Data type: Boolean

Specify the space between each part when the crosstab is split into more than one part. Type a numeric value to change the gap.

Data type: Float

Specify the number of columns in one aggregate cell when the crosstab displays horizontally, or the number of rows in one aggregate cell when the crosstab displays vertically. Type an integer value to change the number.

Data type: Integer

Data type: Boolean

Specify the space between the left/right edge of a crosstab cell and the content in it. Type a numeric value to change the gap.

Data type: Float

Specify whether to place the aggregate field labels on the leftmost column when the aggregate layout is vertical, or on the topmost row of the crosstab when the aggregate layout is horizontal. Enabling this property would make the labels of the aggregate fields far from their values.

Data type: Boolean

Specify whether to repeat the crosstab for different aggregate fields.

Data type: Boolean

Specify whether to display the column headers on every page when the crosstab spans more than one page.

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Specify whether to add labels to the Total rows and columns. Enabling this property may make the row and column labels repeated too much.

Data type: Boolean

Specify the space between the top/bottom edge of a crosstab cell and the content in it. Type a numeric value to change the gap.

Data type: Float

Data type: Boolean

For example, if you define the CSS file as follows:

@charset "GBK";

TextField {Background: #ff0000}

/*Style=LabelX*/

TextField[Style="LabelX"]{Background: #0000FF}

/*ID=W*/

TextField#W{Background: #FFFF00}

/*class=C*/

TextField.C{Background: #00FFFF}

To apply the Class Selector in the file to the object, type C in the value cell.

Data type: String

Specify the name of the ID Selector to apply to the object, which you define in the CSS file of the style the report applies. For example, to apply the ID Selector in the preceding sample CSS file to the object, type W in the value cell.

Data type: String

Data type: String

Right after you set the Columned property to true from false each time, Report will recalculate the values of the other Excel properties of the line objects in the report and reset the values to the defaults: Top Attach Column, Top Attach Row, Bottom Attach Column, and Bottom Attach Row. Server calculates the default values based on the position of each line object in the report. There is an exception: if both the Export to Excel and Export to CSV properties of a line object are false, Server will not recalculate the values of these properties and will preserve them as before.

When you set the Columned property to true:

• Server uses the columned method to export the report to Excel when you select Column Format in the export dialog box.
• You can specify values for the Excel properties mentioned earlier of line objects instead of using the default, to well-align the line objects in the Excel output.

When the property is false, the specified values for the preceding Excel properties of the line objects in the report do not apply when you export the report to CSV or Excel.

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Integer

Data type: Integer

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: String

Data type: Boolean

Data type: String

Data type: Float

Data type: String

• 0 means no rotation.
• A positive value means to rotate the image clockwise.
• A negative value means to rotate the image anticlockwise.

Data type: Float

• actual size
  Select to show the image in its actual size. If the display area is smaller than the image, Server hides part of the image.
• fit image
  Select if you want the image to fill the display area and keep the original perspective ratio under the limitation of Max Ratio.
• fit width
  Select if you want the image to fit the display area width under the limitation of Max Ratio.
• fit height
  Select if you want the image to fit the display area height, under the limitation of Max Ratio.
• customize
  Select if you want to specify the width and height of the image in the size fields.

When you select fit height, fit image, or fit width, the image scales under the limitation of Maximum Scaling Ratio.

Data type: Enumeration

Data type: String

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: String

Data type: Enumeration

Data type: Float

Data type: String

Data type: String

Data type: String

Data type: String

Data type: Float

Data type: Boolean

• Portrait
  Select to position the page vertically.
• Landscape
  Select to position the page horizontally.

Data type: Enumeration

Data type: Enumeration

Data type: Float

Data type: Boolean

Specify the color in which you want to draw a pattern to fill the object. Choose a color from the drop-down list, or select Custom to customize a color in the Color Picker dialog box. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color.

Data type: String

Specify the style of the pattern. Choose an item from the drop-down list.

• none
  Select if you do not want to apply a pattern to the object.
  
• 50%
  Select to fill the object using 50%-transparency of the specified pattern color.
• horizontal
  Select to fill the object with horizontal lines using the specified pattern color.
• vertical
  Select to fill the object with vertical lines using the specified pattern color.
• grid
  Select to fill the object with grids using the specified pattern color.
• diagonal
  Select to fill the object with diagonal lines using the specified pattern color.

Data type: String

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Data type: Float

Specify the background color of the title bar. Select a color from the drop-down list or select Custom to define a color in the Color Picker dialog box. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color.

Data type: String

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Enumeration

Data type: Integer

Data type: String

Data type: Enumeration

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Boolean

Data type: Float

When you add only one DBField to the text list filter control and insert the On-screen Filter special field in a data container that uses the same data resource as the DBField, Report also applies the text in the filter expression of the special field.

Data type: String

Data type: Boolean

Specify the background color for the body of the object. Select a color from the drop-down list or select Custom to define a color in the Color Picker dialog box. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color.

Data type: String

Specify the text you want to display as the object's TOC entry label, when you set the object's TOC Anchor property to "true".

Data type: String

Specify whether to include the object in the TOC of the report.

Data type: Boolean

This property is mapped to the HTML attribute abbr, as specified by w3.org.

Data type: String

Server displays this property only when the DBField is in a crosstab.

This property is mapped to the HTML attribute axis, as specified by w3.org.

Data type: String

Server displays this property only when the DBField is in a crosstab.

This property is mapped to the HTML attribute accesskey, as specified by w3.org.

Data type: String

Specify the name of the Class Selector for the object in the HTML output.

Data type: String

This property is mapped to the HTML attribute dir, as specified by w3.org.

Data type: String

This property is mapped to the HTML attribute id, as specified by w3.org.

Data type: String

This property is mapped to the HTML attribute style, as specified by w3.org.

Data type: String

This property is mapped to the HTML attribute tabindex, as specified by w3.org.

Data type: Integer

This property is mapped to the HTML attribute title, as specified by w3.org.

Data type: String

This property is mapped to the HTML attribute headers, as specified by w3.org.

Data type: String

Server displays this property only when the DBField is in a crosstab.

This property is mapped to the HTML attribute hreflang, as specified by w3.org. You can use it to specify the base language of the resource designated by a link on the object, such as the target you define via the Link property.

Data type: String

This property is mapped to the HTML attribute lang, as specified by w3.org.

Data type: String

This property is mapped to the HTML attribute longdesc, as specified by w3.org.

Data type: String

This property is mapped to the HTML attribute scope, as specified by w3.org. Choose an option from the drop-down list to specify the set of data cells for which the current header cell provides header information in the accessible HTML output.

• None
  Select it if you do not want to generate this attribute in the output.
• Column
  Select it if you want the current header cell to provide header information for the rest of the column that contains it.
• Row
  Select it if you want the current header cell to provide header information for the rest of the row that contains it.

Data type: Enumeration

Server displays this property only when the DBField is in a crosstab.

This property is mapped to the HTML attribute summary, as specified by w3.org.

Data type: String