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The dialog appears when you right-click a banded panel and select Properties from the shortcut menu. It helps you to specify the properties of the panel and contains the following tabs: General, Border, Export and Others.
OK
Applies the banded panel properties and closes this dialog.
Cancel
Cancels the changes and closes this dialog.
Displays the help document about this feature.
Ignores the setting and closes this dialog.
This tab shows some general information of the banded panel.
Name
Specifies the display name of the panel.
Show NLS Value
Specifies to show the translated name for the display name of the panel 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 object is not modified.
Width
Specifies the width of the panel in inches.
Height
Specifies the height of the panel in inches.
Background
Specifies the background color of the panel.
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.
This tab shows information about borders of the banded panel.
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.
You can use this tab to configure the export settings.
Export to CSV
Specifies whether to include the panel when you save the report result as a TXT file with Delimited Format selected.
Export to Excel
Specifies whether to include the panel when exporting the report to Excel.
Export to HTML
Specifies whether to include the panel when exporting the report to HTML.
Export to PDF
Specifies whether to include the panel when exporting the report to PDF.
Export to PostScript
Specifies whether to include the panel when exporting the report to PostScript.
Export to Report Result
Specifies whether to include the panel in Web Report Studio or when the report is opened in Web Report Result.
Export to RTF
Specifies whether to include the panel when exporting the report to RTF.
Export to Text
Specifies whether to include the panel when exporting the report to Text with Delimited Format unselected.
Export to XML
Specifies whether to include the panel when exporting the report to XML.
You can use this tab to configure other settings.
Suppress
Specifies whether to show the panel in the report. All formulas and calculations will be skipped if the property is set to true. Available to the following panels in a banded object: banded header panel, banded footer panel, banded page header panel, banded page footer panel, group header panel, group footer panel and detail panel.
Suppress Blank Panel
Specifies whether a panel with no data is included in the report. The default is false which means an empty panel is shown. Available to the following panels in a banded object: banded header panel, banded footer panel, banded page header panel, banded page footer panel, group header panel, group footer panel and detail panel.
Suppress When No Records
Specifies whether to display the panel in the report when no record is returned to its parent data component. Available to the following panels in a banded object: banded header panel, banded footer panel, banded page header panel, banded page footer panel, group header panel, group footer panel and detail panel.
Underlay
Specifies whether the panel will be layered beneath the next panel in the banded object. A panel layered beneath a subsequent panel can be used to contain a background picture or watermark. Banded page header, page footer, or group footer panels cannot be layered. The default is false which means that the panel is not layered beneath the next panel. Available to the following panels in a banded object: banded header panel, banded footer panel, banded page header panel, banded page footer panel, group header panel, group footer panel and detail panel.
Fill Whole Page
Specifies whether to make the panel extended to the bottom of the page, so that the next panel starts on a new page. Available to the following panels in a banded object: banded header panel, banded footer panel, group header panel, group footer panel and detail panel in.
Specifies whether the panel starts on a new page. This property is applied only when the report has page layout enabled. The default is false which means the panel starts on a new page only if the previous page is filled. Available to the banded header panel, banded footer panel, group header panel, group footer panel and detail panel in a banded object.
Specifies whether the panel can be split across a page break. This property is applied only when the report has page layout enabled. Available to the following panels in a banded object: banded header panel, banded footer panel, group header panel, group footer panel and detail panel.
Specifies whether to tile records in the detail panel. Available only to the detail panel in a banded object.
For a vertical banded object, you can make each set of records in the detail panel to be tiled 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 defines the width of each record tile.
Tile Horizontal
Specifies whether the panel will be layered beneath the next panel in the banded object. A panel layered beneath a subsequent panel can be used to contain a background picture or watermark. Banded page header, page footer, or group footer panels cannot be layered. The default is false which means that the panel is not layered beneath the next panel. Available only to the detail panel in a banded object.