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Banded Object Properties

The dialog appears when you right-click a banded object and select Properties from the shortcut menu. It helps you to specify the properties of the banded object and contains the following tabs: GeneralBorder, Export and Others.

OK

Applies the banded object properties and closes this dialog.

Cancel

Cancels the changes and closes this dialog.

Help button

Displays the help document about this feature.

Close button

Ignores the setting and closes this dialog.

General

This tab shows some general information of the banded object.

Banded Object Properties dialog - General tab

Name

Specifies the display name of the banded object.

Show NLS Value

Specifies to show the translated name for the display name of the banded object in the Name text box if you have enabled the NLS feature and translated it.

If checked, this option takes effect only when the display name of the banded object is not modified.

Width

Specifies the width of the banded object in inches.

Height

Specifies the height of the banded object in inches.

Background

Specifies the background color of the banded object.

To change the color, click the color indicator to select a color, or click More Colors in the color indicator to access the Color Picker dialog in which you can select a color within a wider range or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB. If you want to make the background transparent, input Transparent in the text box.

Border

This tab shows information about borders of the banded object.

Banded Object Properties dialog - Border tab

Color

Specifies the border color.

To change the color, click the color indicator to select a color, or click More Colors in the color indicator to access the Color Picker dialog in which you can select a color within a wider range or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB. If you want to make the color transparent, input Transparent in the text box.

Width

Specifies the border width in inches.

Top Line

Specifies the style of the top border line.

Bottom Line

Specifies the style of the bottom border line.

Left Line

Specifies the style of the left border line.

Right Line

Specifies the style of the right border line.

Export

You can use this tab to configure the export settings.

Banded Object Properties dialog - Export tab

Export to CSV

Specifies whether to include the banded object when you save the report result as a TXT file with Delimited Format selected.

Export to Excel

Specifies whether to include the banded object when exporting the report to Excel.

Export to HTML

Specifies whether to include the banded object when exporting the report to HTML.

Export to PDF

Specifies whether to include the banded object when exporting the report to PDF.

Export to PostScript

Specifies whether to include the banded object when exporting the report to PostScript.

Export to Report Result

Specifies whether to include the banded object in Web Report Studio or when the report is opened in Web Report Result.

Export to RTF

Specifies whether to include the banded object when exporting the report to RTF.

Export to Text

Specifies whether to include the banded object when exporting the report to Text with Delimited Format unselected.

Export to XML

Specifies whether to include the banded object when exporting the report to XML.

Others

You can use this tab to configure other settings.

Banded Object Properties dialog - Others tab

Suppress

Specifies whether to show the banded object in the report. All formulas and calculations will be skipped if the property is set to true.

Suppress When Empty

Specifies whether to display the banded object in the report when no record is returned to it.

Suppress When No Records

Specifies whether to display the banded object in the report when no record is returned to its parent data component.

Enable Navigation

Specifies whether to enable page navigation on the banded object. If it is set to true, if the banded object contains more than one page, a page navigation bar specific for the banded object will be available right below it. You can use the bar to view the desired pages.

When this property is set to true, you can further specify the height and width of the page for the banded object to display multiple pages, by setting the following two properties. If you later resize the banded object, the two properties will be reset to the resized values.

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