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Report Body Properties

The Report Body object is a flow layout container for holding the components in a page report or web report. This topic describes the properties of the Report Body object.

Designer provides some properties only when you use the object in certain report types. You can get details from the Available For column in the property table.

Property NameAvailable ForDescription
General
Class TypeQuery Page ReportIndicates the class type of the object. This property is read only.
Data InheritQuery Page ReportIndicates whether the dataset for this object is inherited from another object. This property is read only.
DatasetQuery Page ReportIndicates the dataset used by the object. This property is read only.
Instance Name Query Page ReportShows the instance name of the object. This property is read only.
Color
BackgroundPage Report, Web ReportSpecifies the background color and fill effect of the object. Choose a color from the drop-down list or select Custom to customize a color, or type a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color. For page report, you can also use a formula or edit an expression that returns a color.

Data type: String

CSS
ClassPage Report, Web ReportSpecifies the name of the Class Selector to apply to the object, which you define in the CSS file of the style the report applies.

For example, if you define the CSS file as follows:

@charset "GBK";
TextField {Background: #ff0000}
/*Style=LabelX*/
TextField[Style="LabelX"]{Background: #0000FF}
/*ID=W*/
TextField#W{Background: #FFFF00}
/*class=C*/
TextField.C{Background: #00FFFF}

To apply the Class Selector in the file to the object, type C in the value cell.

Data type: String

StylePage Report, Web ReportSpecifies the style you want to apply to the object. You can specify the style in two ways:
  • Type the style which should be an Attribute Selector whose attribute is "style" in the CSS file of the style the report applies. For example, to apply the style in the preceding sample CSS file to the object, type LabelX in the value cell.
  • Choose a style from the drop-down list if you have specified the Style Group property for the report tab or web report, and there are styles in the style group that are applicable to the object.

Data type: String

Others
Auto Scale in Number Page Report, Web ReportSpecifies whether to automatically scale the Number values in the object that fall into the two ranges:
  • When 1000 <= value < 10^15, Logi Report Engine applies the following quantity unit symbols of the International System of Units to scale the values: K (10^3), M (10^6), G (10^9), and T (10^12).
  • When 0 < value < 0.001 or value >= 10^15, Logi Report Engine uses scientific notation to scale the values.

Data type: Boolean

Export to CSVPage Report, Web ReportSpecifies whether to include the object in the CSV output.

Data type: Boolean

Export to ExcelPage Report, Web ReportSpecifies whether to include the object in the Excel output.

Data type: Boolean

Export to HTMLPage Report, Web ReportSpecifies whether to include the object in the HTML output.

Data type: Boolean

Export to PDFPage Report, Web ReportSpecifies whether to include the object in the PDF output.

Data type: Boolean

Export to PostScriptPage Report, Web ReportSpecifies whether to include the object in the PostScript output.

Data type: Boolean

Export to Report ResultPage Report, Web ReportSpecifies whether to include the object when you preview the report in the Page Report Result format for a page report or Web Report Result for a web report in Designer, and when users run the report in the same format at runtime.

Data type: Boolean

Export to RTFPage Report, Web ReportSpecifies whether to include the object in the RTF output.

Data type: Boolean

Export to TextPage Report, Web ReportSpecifies whether to include the object in the Text output.

Data type: Boolean

Export to XMLPage Report, Web ReportSpecifies whether to include the object in the XML output.

Data type: Boolean

Record LocationPage Report, Web ReportSpecifies the calculation point for the properties of the object that are controlled by formulas. This property takes effect only when the object is in a banded object. Choose an option from the drop-down list.
  • default
    Select to calculate values of the properties in the default location where the object is placed.
  • page header
    Select to calculate values of the properties in the banded page header panel.
  • page footer
    Select to calculate values of the properties in the banded page footer panel.

For more information, see Example 2: Showing a Label on Every Page Except the Last.

Data type: Enumeration

Suppress When EmptyPage Report, Web ReportSpecifies whether to display the object in the report when no record is returned to it.

Data type: Boolean

Excel
Column IndexQuery Page ReportSpecifies the X coordinate of the object relative to its parent container in the Excel and CSV outputs, measured in cells. This property takes effect when you set Columned of the page report tab to "true".

Data type: Integer

Row IndexQuery Page ReportSpecifies the Y coordinate of the object relative to its parent container in the Excel and CSV outputs, measured in cells. This property takes effect when you set Columned of the page report tab to "true".

Data type: Integer

Border
Border ColorPage Report, Web ReportSpecifies the color for the border of the object. Choose a color from the drop-down list or select Custom to customize a color in the Pick a Color dialog box. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color.

Data type: String

Border ThicknessPage Report, Web ReportSpecifies the width of the border. Type a numeric value to change the thickness.

Data type: Float

Bottom LinePage Report, Web ReportSpecifies the line style of the bottom border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration

Left LinePage Report, Web ReportSpecifies the line style of the left border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration

Right LinePage Report, Web ReportSpecifies the line style of the right border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration

Top LinePage Report, Web ReportSpecifies the line style of the top border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration

TOC
TOC AnchorPage Report, Web ReportSpecifies whether to include the object in the TOC Browser for the report.

Data type: Boolean

Accessibility
External CSS Class SelectorQuery Page ReportSpecifies the name of the Class Selector for the object in the HTML output.

Data type: String

External IDQuery Page ReportIt 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 StyleQuery Page ReportIt is mapped to the HTML attribute style. This attribute specifies style information for the object.

Data type: String

LanguageQuery Page ReportIt 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

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