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Report Body Properties

The Report Body object is a flow layout container for holding the components in a page report or web report. This topic describes the properties of the Report Body object.

Designer provides some properties only when you use the object in certain report types. You can get details from the Available For column in the property table.

Property Name Available For Description
General
Class Type Query Page Report Shows the class type of the object. Read only.
Data Inherit Query Page Report Shows whether the object inherits dataset from another object. Read only.
Dataset Query Page Report Shows the dataset the object applies. Read only.
Instance Name Query Page Report Shows the instance name of the object. Read only.
Color
Background Page Report, Web Report Specifies the background color or fill effect of the object. Choose a color from the drop-down list, or select Custom to customize a color in the color palette. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color.

Data type: String
CSS
Class Page Report, Web Report Specifies the name of the Class Selector to apply to the object, which you define in the CSS file of the style the report applies.

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
Style Page Report, Web Report Specifies the style you want to apply to the object. You can specify the style in two ways:
  • Type the style which should be an Attribute Selector whose attribute is "style" in the CSS file of the style the report applies. For example, to apply the style in the preceding sample CSS file to the object, type LabelX in the value cell.
  • Choose a style from the drop-down list when you have specified the Style Group property for the report tab or web report, and there are styles in the style group that are applicable to the object.

Data type: String
Others
Auto Scale in Number Page Report, Web Report Specifies whether to automatically scale the Number values in the object that fall into the two ranges:
  • When 1000 <= value < 10^15, Designer applies 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, Designer uses scientific notation to scale the values.

Data type: Boolean
Export to CSV Page Report, Web Report Specifies whether to include the object in the CSV output.

Data type: Boolean
Export to Excel Page Report, Web Report Specifies whether to include the object in the Excel output.

Data type: Boolean
Export to HTML Page Report, Web Report Specifies whether to include the object in the HTML output.

Data type: Boolean
Export to PDF Page Report, Web Report Specifies whether to include the object in the PDF output.

Data type: Boolean
Export to PostScript Page Report, Web Report Specifies whether to include the object in the PostScript output.

Data type: Boolean
Export to Report Result Page Report, Web Report Specifies whether to include the object when you preview the report in the Page Report Result format for a page report or Web Report Result for a web report in Designer, and when users run the report in the same format at runtime.

Data type: Boolean
Export to RTF Page Report, Web Report Specifies whether to include the object in the RTF output.

Data type: Boolean
Export to Text Page Report, Web Report Specifies whether to include the object in the Text output.

Data type: Boolean
Export to XML Page Report, Web Report Specifies whether to include the object in the XML output.

Data type: Boolean
Record Location Page Report, Web Report Specifies the calculation point for the properties of the object that are controlled by formulas. This property takes effect only when the object is in a banded object. Choose an option from the drop-down list.
  • default
    Select to calculate values of the properties in the default location where the object is placed.
  • page header
    Select to calculate values of the properties in the banded page header panel.
  • page footer
    Select to calculate values of the properties in the banded page footer panel.

See Example 2: Showing a Label on Every Page Except the Last.

Data type: Enumeration

Suppress When Empty Page Report, Web Report Specifies whether to suppress the object in the report when no record is returned to it. Data type: Boolean
Excel
Column Index Query Page Report Specifies the X coordinate of the object relative to its parent container in the Excel and CSV outputs, measured in cells.

Data type: Integer

Note icon This property takes effect when you set the page report tab's Columned property to "true".
Row Index Query Page Report Specifies the Y coordinate of the object relative to its parent container in the Excel and CSV outputs, measured in cells.

Data type: Integer

Note icon This property takes effect when you set the page report tab's Columned property to "true".
Border
Border Color Page Report, Web Report Specifies the color for the border of the object. Choose a color from the drop-down list, or select Custom to customize a color in the Pick a Color dialog box. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color.

Data type: String
Border Thickness Page Report, Web Report Specifies the width for the border of the object. Type a numeric value to change the thickness.

Data type: Float
Bottom Line Page Report, Web Report Specifies the line style for the bottom border of the object. Choose an option from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration
Left Line Page Report, Web Report Specifies the line style for the left border of the object. Choose an option from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration
Right Line Page Report, Web Report Specifies the line style for the right border of the object. Choose an option from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration
Top Line Page Report, Web Report Specifies the line style for the top border of the object. Choose an option from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration
TOC
TOC Anchor Page Report, Web Report Specifies whether to include the object in the TOC of the report.

Data type: Boolean
Accessibility
External CSS Class Selector Query Page Report Specifies the name of the Class Selector for the object in the HTML output.

Data type: String
External ID Query Page Report This property is mapped to the HTML attribute id, as specified by w3.org.

Data type: String
External Style Query Page Report This property is mapped to the HTML attribute style, as specified by w3.org.

Data type: String
Language Query Page Report This property is mapped to the HTML attribute lang, as specified by w3.org.

Data type: String

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