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Detail Panel

The properties of a Detail Panel object in a banded object are:

Property NameDescription
General
Data InheritIndicates whether the dataset for this object is inherited from another object. This property is read only.
Display Name Specifies the display name of the object.

Data type: String

Instance NameShows the instance name of the object. This property is read only.
Geometry
HeightSpecifies the height of the object. Type a numeric value to change the height.

Data type: Float

WidthSpecifies the width of the object. Type a numeric value to change the width.

Data type: Float

Color
BackgroundSpecifies 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 type a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color.

Data type: String

Border
Border ColorSpecifies 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 type a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color.

Data type: String

Border ThicknessSpecifies the width of the border. Type a numeric value to change the thickness.

Data type: Float

Bottom LineSpecifies the line style of the bottom border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration

Left LineSpecifies the line style of the left border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration

Right LineSpecifies the line style of the right border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration

Top LineSpecifies the line style of the top border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration

Others
Cache SectionSpecifies 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 PageSpecifies whether the panel can be split across a page break.
  • If false, the panel will be shown in the next page when it spans a large space vertically and cannot be wholly shown in a page.
  • If true, the panel will be split across a page break when it exceeds the page height.

This property is applied only when running or exporting the report in the formats that support page layout such as PDF, RTF, and so on.

Data type: Boolean

Current Block IndexThe 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 CSVSpecifies whether to include the object in the CSV result of the report.

Data type: Boolean

Export to ExcelSpecifies whether to include the object in the Excel result of the report.

Data type: Boolean

Export to HTMLSpecifies whether to include the object in the HTML result of the report.

Data type: Boolean

Export to PDFSpecifies whether to include the object in the PDF result of the report.

Data type: Boolean

Export to PostScriptSpecifies whether to include the object in the PostScript result of the report.

Data type: Boolean

Export to Report ResultSpecifies whether to include the object when running the report in Web Report Studio.

Data type: Boolean

Export to RTFSpecifies whether to include the object in the RTF result of the report.

Data type: Boolean

Export to TextSpecifies whether to include the object in the Text result of the report.

Data type: Boolean

Export to XMLSpecifies whether to include the object in the XML result of the report.

Data type: Boolean

Fill Whole PageSpecifies 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

InvisibleSpecifies whether to show the object in the report. All formulas and calculations will still be performed if the property is set to true.

Data type: Boolean

Items per BlockThe 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

LabelSpecifies the popup text displayed when the mouse pointer hovers over the left edge of the panel.

Data type: String

On New PageSpecifies whether the panel starts on a new page. The default is false which means the panel starts on a new page only if the previous page is filled. This property is applied only when running or exporting the report in the formats that support page layout such as PDF, RTF, and so on.

Data type: Boolean

Record LocationSpecifies the calculation point for the properties of the object which are controlled by formulas. Choose an option from the drop-down list.
  • Default - The values of the properties are calculated in the default location where they are located.
  • Page Header - The values of the properties are calculated in the page header.
  • Page Footer - The values of the properties are calculated in the page footer.

Data type: Enumeration

Remove Blank RowSpecifies whether to remove blank rows in the panel in the exported Excel file.

Data type: Boolean

SuppressSpecifies whether to show the object in the report. All formulas and calculations will be skipped if the property is set to true. You can also use a formula to dynamically control whether or not to show the object.

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 PanelSpecifies whether a panel with no data is included in the report. The default is false which means an empty panel is shown.

Data type: Boolean

Suppress When No RecordsSpecifies whether to display the object in the report result when no record is returned to its parent data component.

Data type: Boolean

Tile Detail PanelSpecifies whether to tile records in the detail panel.

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.

Data type: Boolean

This image notes any new content for version 17 of the product. For more information please see the Release Notes or What's New topics.Note: When the banded object's Auto Fit property is true, the Tile Detail Panel property will always be treated as false at runtime.
Tile HorizontalIf 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.
  • true - Records will be tiled in the row direction and then in column.
  • false - Records will be tiled in the column direction and then in row.

Data type: Boolean

UnderlaySpecifies 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

Tile Detail Panel

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 = *** (The width of the detail panel. You can set this value according to the width of one column.)

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