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Properties of Detail Panel in Page Report
The properties of a detail panel object in a banded object of a page report are:
| Property Name | Description |
|---|---|
| General | |
| Class Type | Indicates the class type of the object. This property is read only. |
| Data Inherit | Indicates whether the dataset for this object is inherited from another object. This property is read only. |
| Dataset | Indicates the dataset used by the object. This property is read only. |
| Instance Name | Shows the instance name of the object. This property is read only. |
| Geometry | |
| Height | Specifies the height of the object. Enter a numeric value to change the height.
Data type: Float |
| Width | Specifies the width of the object. Enter a numeric value to change the width.
Data type: Float |
| Color | |
| Background | Specifies the background color and fill effect of the object. Choose a color from the drop-down list or select Custom to customize a color. You can also use a formula or edit an expression that returns a color, or enter a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color.
Data type: String |
| CSS | |
| Class | Specifies a CSS class to be applied to the object which is a valid class in the CSS file.
Data type: String |
| Style | The property can be used in two ways.
Data type: String |
| Others | |
| Cache Section | Specifies whether to cache the objects in the detail panel.
Data type: Boolean Note: The property doesn't work if there is crosstab, text object, chart, and so on in the panel, because these objects contain child-DBFields. |
| Cross Page | Specifies whether the panel can be split across a page break. This property is applied only when the report has page layout enabled.
Data type: Boolean |
| Current Block Index | The two properties, Current Block Index and Items per Block, work together to control the data of the object to be displayed in continuous page mode.
Current Block Index specifies the index of the data block that will be displayed. 0 means the first block index, and 1 the second, and so on. Data type: Integer |
| Export to Applet | Specifies whether to include the object when exporting the report to Applet.
Data type: Boolean |
| Export to CSV | Specifies whether to include the object when exporting the report to CSV.
Data type: Boolean |
| Export to Excel | Specifies whether to include the object when exporting the report to Excel.
Data type: Boolean |
| Export to HTML | Specifies whether to include the object when exporting the report to HTML.
Data type: Boolean |
| Export to PDF | Specifies whether to include the object when exporting the report to PDF.
Data type: Boolean |
| Export to PostScript | Specifies whether to include the object when exporting the report to PostScript.
Data type: Boolean |
| Export to Report Result | Specifies whether to include the object when exporting the report to Report Result.
Data type: Boolean |
| Export to RTF | Specifies whether to include the object when exporting the report to RTF.
Data type: Boolean |
| Export to Text | Specifies whether to include the object when exporting the report to Text.
Data type: Boolean |
| Export to XML | Specifies whether to include the object when exporting the report to XML.
Data type: Boolean |
| 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.
Data type: Boolean |
| Invisible | Specifies whether to show the object in the design area and in the report results. All formulas and calculations will still be performed if the property is set to true.
Data type: Boolean |
| Items per Block | The two properties, Current Block Index and Items per Block, work together to control the data of the object to be displayed in continuous page mode.
Item per Block specifies the number of records in each data block. Data type: Integer |
| Label | Specifies the popup text displayed when the mouse pointer hovers over the left edge of the panel.
Data type: String |
| On New Page | 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.
Data type: Boolean |
| Record Location | Specifies the calculation point for the properties which use formulas. Choose an option from the drop-down list.
Data type: Enumeration |
| Remove Blank Row | Specifies whether to remove blank rows in the panel in the exported Excel file.
Data type: Boolean |
| Show Bottom Line | Specifies whether to include a horizontal line at the bottom of the panel. Applies to panels in table components only. The default is false, which means that no horizontal line appears at the bottom of the panel.
Data type: Boolean |
| Suppress | Specifies whether to show the object in the design area and in the report results. All formulas and calculations will be skipped if the property is set to true.
Data type: Boolean Note: When both the Invisible and Suppress properties of an object are set to true, Suppress has the higher priority. |
| Suppress Blank Panel | Specifies whether a panel with no data is included in the report results. The default is false which means an empty panel is shown.
Data type: Boolean |
| Suppress When No Records | Specifies whether to display the object in the report results when no record is returned to its parent data component.
Data type: Boolean |
| Tile Detail Panel | Specifies whether to tile records in the detail panel.
For a vertical/horizontal 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/height defines the width/height of each record tile. Data type: Boolean |
| Tile Horizontal | If the Tile Detail Panel property of the detail panel is set to true, you can further specify the direction for tiling records in the detail panel.
Data type: Boolean |
| 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.
Data type: Boolean |
| Border | |
| Border Color | Specifies the color of the border of the object. Choose a color from the drop-down list or select Custom to customize a color. You can also use a formula or edit an expression that returns a color, or enter a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color.
Data type: String |
| Border Thickness | Specifies the width of the border. Enter a numeric value to change the thickness.
Data type: Float |
| Bottom Line | Specifies the line style of the bottom border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list.
Data type: Enumeration |
| Left Line | Specifies the line style of the left border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list.
Data type: Enumeration |
| Right Line | Specifies the line style of the right border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list.
Data type: Enumeration |
| Top Line | Specifies the line style of the top border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list.
Data type: Enumeration |
| Accessibility | |
| External CSS Class Selector | Specifies a class selector to be applied to the object when exported as HTML. Enter a valid class name from the CSS file.
Data type: String |
| External ID | It is mapped to the HTML attribute id. This attribute specifies a name to the object, which must be unique in the report.
Data type: String |
| External Style | It is mapped to the HTML attribute style. This attribute specifies style information for the object.
Data type: String |
| Language | It is mapped to the HTML attribute lang. This attribute specifies the base language of the object's attribute values and text content.
Data type: String |
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 Report Inspector, select the detail panel, and set properties as follows:
Tile Detail Panel = true
Width = *** (width of the detail panel. You can set this value according to the width of one column.