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Page Report Tab Properties
This topic lists the properties of a Page Report Tab object.
| Property Name | Description |
|---|---|
| General | |
| Default Format for Viewing Report | Specifies the default format with which to view the report tab on Logi Report Server. The default value is to adopt the Logi Report Server setting. If you select a specific format, you can select the button  beside to further configure the format settings.
After this property is configured, it will only control the directly-running result of the report tab on Logi Report Server, but has no effect on the result of advanced running and schedule running.
Data type: Enumeration |
| Instance Name | Shows the instance name of the report tab. This property is read only and available for page reports created using query resources. |
| Report Layout Type | Displays the layout type of the report tab. This property is read only and available for page reports created using query resources.
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| Result Buffer | |
| Result Buffer Size | Specifies the number of report result pages which will be stored in the buffer.
Data type: Integer |
| Data (available for page reports created using query resources) | |
| Automatic Cube Initialization | Specifies whether or not to enable the automatic cube conversion.
Data type: Boolean |
| Others | |
| After Init Parameter | This property is for Exit function usage. You can specify an external application file (Java class file) which develops an action. The action will be called after you specify parameters in the pop-up parameter dialog when running the report tab.
This property is available for page reports created using query resources.
Data type: String |
| After Run | This property is for Exit function usage. You can specify an external application file (Java class file) which develops an action. The action will be called immediately after Logi Report Engine has finished running the report result.
This property is available for page reports created using query resources.
Data type: String |
| Before Run | This property is for Exit function usage. You can specify an external application file (Java class file) which develops an action. The action will be called at the point Logi Report Engine is about to run the report tab.
This property is available for page reports created using query resources.
Data type: String |
| Click Priority | Specifies the priority of the actions that will be triggered at runtime when you select on certain objects in the report tab which are bound with some actions. Select in the value cell to set the priority in the Click Priority dialog.
Data type: String |
| Embedded Fonts | Specifies the True Type Fonts that have been used in the report tab so as to embed them if you want to export the report result to a PDF file. You can select multiple fonts by pressing the Ctrl or Shift key.
For more information, refer to Delivering TTF Result in PDF. Data type: String |
| Import JavaScript | Specifies the name of a JavaScript file you develop to apply customized functions in Page Report Studio, for example, user1.js.
This property is available for page reports created using query resources.
Your JavaScript file should be located in Data type: String |
| No Temp File | Specifies whether or not to create temporary files.
Data type: Boolean |
| On Parameter Value Change | Specifies to use formulas to validate values of the parameters used by the report tab, then when the parameter values are changed at runtime, the values will be passed to the formulas first for validation. If the values are valid, they will be applied to the parameters; if not, you can make messages returned. Note that when you define the formula, you need to make it return a blank string for valid parameter values. Choose the required formulas from the drop-down list (to select multiple formulas, make user of the Ctrl or Shift keys on the keyboard, after selecting the formulas, select outside of the value cell to confirm).
For example, for a string type parameter which requires a value that is of 4-7 characters, you can define a formula like this:
Then, when a string value of 9 characters is specified to the parameter, you will be prompted with the "The value is too long." message. Data type: Object Array |
| Page Background | Specifies the background color of the report page. 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 type a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color.
Data type: String |
| Precision Sensitive | Specifies whether to enable customized precision settings in the report result when exporting the report tab to different formats. If you do not care the report visual effect, leave the value of the property to be false as default and let Logi Report deal with the precision. Logi Report has better performance when precision insensitive than when sensitive. When the property is set to true, customized precision level for different export formats will be applied for exporting the report tab.
This property is available for page reports created using query resources.
Data type: Boolean |
| Show Subreport Header Footer | Specifies whether or not to show the page header and footer panels of subreports in the report tab.
Data type: Boolean |
| Style Group | Specifies the style group for the report tab.
When the report tab is used as a subreport, choosing any style group from the drop-down list turns on the Style Group feature for the report tab and it will inherit the style group of the primary report; choosing None or leaving this property empty turns off the Style Group feature for the report tab and it will not inherit style group from the primary report. When the report tab is used as a linked report, if the option "Pass style group information down to linked report" is selected when defining the link condition, it will inherit the style group of the primary report; if unselected, it will take the style group specifed by the property. Data type: String |
| Suppress Object Space If Not Exported | Specifies whether to suppress the space used for holding the objects in the exported report result when you have specified not to include them for exporting.
Data type: Boolean |
| Excel | |
| Column Width List | Specifies the width of columns beginning from the first column for the exported Excel sheet.
If you don't want to specify the width for a certain column, omit the value. Logi Report will then use the default value (8) for the column.
This property is available for page reports created using query resources.
Use semicolon (;) to separate each width, for example: 12;8;15;10;9 The example specifies the width of the first 5 columns. For the other columns, they take the default width of Microsoft Excel sheet. 8 indicates the default column width in Microsoft Excel sheet. It can be omitted. The above example can also be written as 12;;15;10;9 Data type: String Notes:
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| Columned | If true, the engine performance will be improved when exporting the report tab to CSV and Excel formats.
Only after the Columned property is set to true, it is meaningful to specify values to the following Excel properties of objects in the report tab, otherwise the specified values for these Excel properties cannot take effect.
Data type: Boolean |
| Excel Buffer Size | Specifies the number of report result sheets which will be stored in the buffer when exporting the report tab to Excel.
This property is available for page reports created using query resources.
Data type: Integer |
| Fast Pass | If true, the engine performance will be improved when running the report tab to CSV format in multiple threads on Logi Report Server.
This property is available for page reports created using query resources.
To make fast pass work, the property Columned should be true. Data type: Boolean |
| No Page Break | If true, there will be no page breaks on each individual sheet when exporting the report tab to Excel with the option Column Format selected in the Export to Excel dialog. This means the column headings will appear just at the top of the Excel spreadsheet and will not be repeated throughout the report. If the report breaks to a new sheet then once again the page header will display.
Data type: Boolean Note: Exporting a report tab to an Excel file without page breaks means the split pages are technically merged within the Excel sheet, which could bring the following results and limitations:
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| Rows per Sheet | Specifies the maximum number of rows for every worksheet when exporting the report tab to Excel.
This property is available for page reports created using query resources.
For the Excel version Excel 97-2003 Workbook (*.xls), the value ranges from 0 to 65000. Any value out of the range will be considered as 65000. For the Excel version Excel Workbook (*.xlsx), the value ranges from 0 to 1048000. Any value out of the range will be considered as 1048000. When exporting a report to Excel, rows in the same page of the report cannot be separated and exported to different worksheets, thus the number of rows that is exported to a worksheet may be greater than the maximum number of rows that you set for the property Rows per Sheet. For example, if you set the value of Rows per Sheet to 100, all the contents of the first page will be exported to the first worksheet. After that, the rows of the first worksheet will be tested automatically by Logi Report Designer. If the number of rows is less than 100, the Next Topic will still be exported to the first worksheet, even if the number of rows in the first page and the Next Topic is greater than 100; If the number of rows in the first page is equal to or more than 100, a new worksheet will be generated and the second page will be exported to the new worksheet. Data type: Integer |
| Sheet Name | Specifies the sheet name for the report tab in the report's Excel result. If the report tab is split into several sheets in the Excel result because of limited rows per sheet, a postfix number will be added to the sheets starting from the second one (SheetName, SheetName1, SheetName2, SheetName3...).
This property is available for page reports created using query resources.
Data type: String Note: The characters "|", ":", "/", "?", "\", "*", "]", "[" cannot be displayed in the sheet name in Excel and the last character in the sheet name cannot be single quotation mark ('). If any one of them is used when you specify the property, it will be replaced by "_" in Excel. |
| Style Group for Export (available for page reports created using query resources) | |
| Excel Style Group | Pre-sets the style group for the Excel result of the report tab. If you do not specify a value here, the Style Group property value will be applied.
Data type: String |
| Fax Style Group | Pre-sets the style group for the fax result of the report tab. If you do not specify a value here, the Style Group property value will be applied.
Data type: String |
| HTML Style Group | Pre-sets the style group for the HTML result of the report tab. If you do not specify a value here, the Style Group property value will be applied.
Data type: String |
| Page Report Style Group | Pre-sets the style group for running the report tab in Page Report Studio. If you do not specify a value here, the Style Group property value will be applied.
Data type: String |
| PDF Style Group | Pre-sets the style group for the PDF result of the report tab. If you do not specify a value here, the Style Group property value will be applied.
Data type: String |
| PS Style Group | Pre-sets the style group for the PostScript result of the report tab. If you do not specify a value here, the Style Group property value will be applied.
Data type: String |
| RST Style Group | Pre-sets the style group for the RST result of the report tab. If you do not specify a value here, the Style Group property value will be applied.
Data type: String |
| RTF Style Group | Pre-sets the style group for the RTF result of the report tab. If you do not specify a value here, the Style Group property value will be applied.
Data type: String |
| Text Style Group | Pre-sets the style group for the Text result of the report tab. If you do not specify a value here, the Style Group property value will be applied.
Data type: String |
| XML Style Group | Pre-sets the style group for the XML result of the report tab. If you do not specify a value here, the Style Group property value will be applied.
Data type: String |
Automatic Cube Initialization
In order for a query based report component created in Logi Report Designer, such as table, crosstab, chart, and banded object, to be able to perform analytic reporting actions on when you work with them in Page Report Studio, Logi Report needs to convert the component from query based to business view based.
When the conversion is required
The conversion is required when Page Report Studio end user is trying to perform an analytic reporting action such as drilling through data on a table, crosstab, chart, or banded object which is created based on a query.
When the property Automatic Cube Initialization is set to true, Logi Report will automatically convert the queries a report tab uses to business views when opening the report tab in Page Report Studio.
What makes the conversion successful
The success of the conversion lies in the following aspects:
- There should be a business view using only the query that a report component uses as the data resource.
- All the fields in the report component have corresponding elements in the business view. For the mapping relationship, see the section How to convert.
- The cases illustrated in What cannot be converted should be avoided.
Tip: The report designer can create a complete and full-function business view for the required query, in this way, all fields in the query are able to be converted since there are always corresponding view elements found in the complete business view. To create such a complete business view, create a group and a detail element for each DBField and formula, and create an aggregation for each summary.
The following lists what types of fields in the query will be converted to what types of elements in the business view:
| When a query field is used as | It will be converted to |
|---|---|
| Group by field, crosstab column/row field, chart category/series field | Group element |
| Crosstab summaries | Aggregation element |
| Show Value in chart and is a summary | Aggregation element |
| Show Value in chart and is of Number type | Detail element |
| Static summary in the current or child group level, that is, the group by field of the static summary is the same as the one used for the current group level or an ancestor group level | Aggregation element |
| Others and there is corresponding detail element in the business view | Detail element |
| Others and there isn't corresponding detail element in the business view | Group element |
The following list shows the cases in a query based component that do not support conversion. The list supposes that all the involved query fields have their corresponding view elements in the business view based on the query:
- Static summary (except that used as Show Value of chart or in the current or child group level).
- Dynamic summary (except when the summary's group-by level is 0).
- Formula that references summaries.
- Page level formula, that is, the formula calculated after the whole report finishes rendering.
- DBField or formula used as group-by field but the group has a special function.
- Parameter used as group-by field.
- Chart in a banded object that uses inherited dataset.
- Table, crosstab, or banded object whose dataset is inherited.
- Table, crosstab, chart, or banded object when one of its children components cannot be converted (the children components exclude blank components and those having already been converted).
Result Buffer Size
The result buffer is used to store the result of one report in pages. Its default size 4 indicates 4 pages of the report result have been allocated to the result buffer. The other pages will be stored on disk. If you have enough memory, you can increase the result buffer size to store more pages of the report result. By doing this, you will achieve better performance.
Import JavaScript
If you want to develop functions in your own JS file, you can use this property to support the control objects when viewing reports in Page Report Studio. Your own JS file should be located in <server_install_root>\public_html\javascript\dhtml, and it will work together with the API.js file in the same folder, but with a higher priority if both of them contain the same functions.
To use this property, simply set the property value to the name of your JS file.
For example, you have a JavaScript file named "user1.js" which contains the following function:
function promptMessage(message)
{
alert(message);
}
window.promptMessage("test")
In this example, set the property to "user1.js" in order to apply functions defined in the file.
Excel Buffer Size
The Excel buffer is used to store the report result in Excel buffer sheets when exporting the result in Excel format. Its default size is 1, which indicates 1 sheet of the report result is allocated to the result buffer. The other sheets will be stored on disk. If you have enough memory, you can increase the Excel buffer size to store more sheets of the Excel report result. By doing this, you will achieve better performance.
Note: The Excel Buffer Size property takes effect only when the Data Format option in the Export to Excel dialog is not selected.
Columned
Right after you set the property to true from false each time, Logi Report will recalculate the values of the following Excel properties of all objects in the report tab and reset the values to the defaults.
- Column Index/Row Index
- Column Number/Row Number. The properties are for chart platforms, images and UDOs.
- Top Attach Column/Top Attach Row/Bottom Attach Column/Bottom Attach Row. The properties are for drawing objects.
The default values are calculated based on the position of each object in the report tab. There is an exception: if both the Export to Excel and Export to CSV properties of an object are false, the values of these properties will not be recalculated and will be preserved as before.
The property controls two things when it is true:
- Use the columned method to export the report to Excel when the option Column Format in the corresponding export dialog is selected.
- You can specify values for the Excel properties mentioned above of an object instead of using the default, so that they can be well-aligned in the exported Excel file. However if the Position property of an object is static, its Column Index and Row Index properties will not take affect when the report tab is exported to Excel.
When the property is false:
- The specified values for the above Excel properties of objects in the report tab are not applied when exporting to CSV or Excel.
Style Group for Export
This is to pre-set a style group to the report tab for each export format. The style group specified for export formats has higher priority than that specified for the Style Group property. However, if you do not specify a style group for an export format, when you export the report to the format, it will take the value specified for the Style Group property by default.
The specified export style group applies in the following cases: when export or preview the report in Logi Report Designer, export the report in Page Report Studio, and when run/advanced run the report or schedule to publish it to version/disk/e-mail/FTP in Logi Report Server.
When viewing a report tab by selecting the View tab in Logi Report Designer, the value specified for the Style Group property is selected by default in the Select Style Group dialog but you can choose another style group to use in the dialog. In the view mode, if you further preview the view result in different formats or export it to different formats, the preview/export result will take the style group of the view result, and the Style Group for Export property will not take effect.