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Multivalue Container Properties
The Multivalue Container Properties dialog helps you to edit the properties of a multivalue container. It contains the following tabs: General, Font, Border and Others.
OK
Applies the settings and closes this dialog.
Cancel
Cancels the settings and closes this dialog.
Help
Displays the help document about this feature.
General
This tab shows some general information of the multivalue container.
Name
Specifies the display name of the multivalue container, which will be shown on its shortcut menu.
Show NLS Value
Specifies to show the translated name for the display name of the multivalue container 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 multivalue container is not modified.
Position
Specifies the position mode of the multivalue container. If the multivalue container is directly contained in the report body, a tabular cell, or a text box, its position mode can be modified.
- Absolute: The multivalue container's position will be decided by its X and Y property values.
- Static: The multivalue container will be positioned at the default location in its container. If selected, the X, Y and other position-related properties will be hidden or disabled.
X
Specifies the X coordinate of the multivalue container.
Y
Specifies the Y coordinate of the multivalue container.
Width
Specifies the width of the multivalue container.
Height
Specifies the height of the multivalue container.
Background
Specifies the background color of the multivalue container.
To change the color, select the color indicator to access the Select Color dialog and then specify a new color, or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB. If you want to make the background transparent, input Transparent in the text box.
Foreground
Specifies the foreground color of the multivalue container.
To change the color, select the color indicator to access the Select Color dialog and then specify a new color, or input a color string in the text box.
Font
This tab shows the font-related information of the multivalue container.
Font
Specifies the font face of the text.
Size
Specifies the font size of the text.
Bold
Specifies whether to make the text bold or not.
Italic
Specifies whether to make the text italic or not.
Border
This tab shows information about borders of the multivalue container.
Color
Specifies the border color.
Width
Specifies the border width.
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.
Others
You can use this tab to view and configure some miscellaneous settings.
TOC Anchor
Specifies whether or not to add the node that represents the multivalue container to the TOC tree that is displayed in the TOC Browser.
Suppress When No Records
Specifies whether to display the multivalue container in the report result when no record is returned to its parent data component.
Export to XLS
If true, the multivalue container will be exported when you save the report result as an XLS file (make sure to check Data Format in the Export dialog).
Export to CSV
If true, the multivalue container will be exported when you save the report result as a TXT file with Delimited Format selected.