Detail Panel Properties

This topic lists the properties of a Detail Panel object in a banded object. The availabilities of the properties vary for the supported report types: Page Report and Web Report.

Property Name	Available For	Description
General
Class Type	Query Page Report	Indicates the class type of the object. This property is read only.
Data Inherit	Query Page Report	Indicates whether the dataset for this object is inherited from another object. This property is read only.
Dataset	Query Page Report	Indicates the dataset used by the object. This property is read only.
Instance Name	Query Page Report	Shows the instance name of the object. This property is read only.
Geometry
Height	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies the height of the object. Type a numeric value to change the height. Data type: Float
Width	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies the width of the object. Type a numeric value to change the width. Data type: Float
Color
Background	Page Report, Web Report	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 type a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color. Data type: String
CSS
Class	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies a CSS class to be applied to the object which is a valid class in the CSS file. Data type: String
Style	Page Report, Web Report	The property can be used in two ways. Specifies a style to be applied to the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list which is available when a Style Group has been selected at the report tab level and when there are styles in the Style Group that can be applied to the object, or type in the style name. Specifies a CSS selector to be applied to the object. Type a valid class name from the CSS file. Data type: String
Others
Cache Section	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies whether to cache the objects in the detail panel. Data type: Boolean 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	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies whether the panel can be split across a page break. If false, the panel will be shown in the Next Topic 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 the report has page layout enabled. Data type: Boolean
Current Block Index	Page Report, Web Report	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 CSV	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies whether to include the object in the CSV output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to Excel	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies whether to include the object in the Excel output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to HTML	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies whether to include the object in the HTML output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to PDF	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies whether to include the object in the PDF output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to PostScript	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies whether to include the object in the PostScript output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to Report Result	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies whether to include the object when previewing the report in Page/Web Report Result and running the report in Page/Web Report Studio. Data type: Boolean
Export to RTF	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies whether to include the object in the RTF output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to Text	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies whether to include the object in the Text output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to XML	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies whether to include the object in the XML output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Fill Whole Page	Page Report, Web Report	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	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies whether to show the object in the design area and in the report result. All formulas and calculations will still be performed if the property is set to true. Data type: Boolean
Items per Block	Page Report, Web Report	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	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies the popup text displayed when the mouse pointer hovers over the left edge of the panel. Data type: String
On New Page	Page Report, Web Report	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 Topic is filled. Data type: Boolean
Record Location	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies 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 Row	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies whether to remove blank rows in the panel in the Excel output. Data type: Boolean
Show Bottom Line	Query Page Report	Specifies whether to include a horizontal line at the bottom of the panel. The default is false, which means that no horizontal line appears at the bottom of the panel. Data type: Boolean
Suppress	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies whether to show the object in the design area and in the report result. All formulas and calculations will be skipped if the property is set to true. Data type: Boolean When you set both the Invisible and Suppress properties of an object to true, Suppress has the higher priority.
Suppress Blank Panel	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies whether a panel with no data is included in the report result. The default is false which means an empty panel is shown. Data type: Boolean
Suppress When No Records	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies whether to display the object in the report result when no record is returned to its parent data component. Data type: Boolean
Tile Detail Panel	Page Report, Web Report	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 If you set the banded object's Auto Fit property to "true", Logi Report Engine always treats the Tile Detail Panel property as "false" at runtime.
Tile Horizontal	Page Report, Web Report	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. 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
Underlay	Page Report, Web Report	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	Page Report, Web Report	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 type a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color. Data type: String
Border Joint	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies the joint style for the border lines of the object. Choose an option from the drop-down list. miter - Joins path segments by extending their outside edges until they meet. round - Joins path segments by rounding off the corner at a radius of half the line width. Data type: Enumeration
Border Thickness	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies the width of the border. Type a numeric value to change the thickness. Data type: Float
Bottom Line	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies the line style of the bottom border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list. Data type: Enumeration
Left Line	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies the line style of the left border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list. Data type: Enumeration
Radius	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies the radius for the border line joint of the object. This property takes effect only when Border Joint is set to round. Data type: Integer
Right Line	Page Report, Web Report	Specifies the line style of the right border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list. Data type: Enumeration
Top Line	Page Report, Web Report	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	Query Page Report	Specifies a class selector to be applied to the object when exported as HTML. Type a valid class name from the CSS file. Data type: String
External ID	Query Page Report	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	Query Page Report	It is mapped to the HTML attribute style. This attribute specifies style information for the object. Data type: String
Language	Query Page Report	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

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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