Detail Panel Properties
This topic describes the properties of a Detail Panel object in a banded 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 Name | Available For | Description |
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General | ||
Class Type | Query Page Report | Shows the class type of the object. This property is read only. |
Data Inherit | Query Page Report | Shows whether the object inherits dataset from another object. This property is read only. |
Dataset | Query Page Report | Shows the dataset the object applies. 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 or fill effect of the object. Choose a color from the drop-down list or select Custom to customize a color in the color palette. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value (for example, 0xff0000) to specify a color. Data type: String |
CSS | ||
Class | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies 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:
To apply the Class Selector in the file to the object, type C in the value cell. Data type: String |
Style | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies the style you want to apply to the object. You can specify the style in two ways:
Data type: String |
Others | ||
Cache Section | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to cache the objects in the panel.
Data type: Boolean This property doesn't work if there is a crosstab, 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.
This property cannot take effect if you disable Page Layout for the report, meaning, the report is in continuous page mode. Data type: Boolean |
Current Block Index | Page Report, Web Report | You can use Current Block Index and Items per Block together to control the data of the object you want to display in continuous page mode. Current Block Index specifies the index of the data block. 0 means the first block index, 1 means 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.
Data type: Boolean |
Export to Excel | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to include the object in the Excel output.
Data type: Boolean |
Export to HTML | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to include the object in the HTML output.
Data type: Boolean |
Export to PDF | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to include the object in the PDF output.
Data type: Boolean |
Export to PostScript | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to include the object in the PostScript output.
Data type: Boolean |
Export to Report Result | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies 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 RTF | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to include the object in the RTF output.
Data type: Boolean |
Export to Text | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to include the object in the Text output.
Data type: Boolean |
Export to XML | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to include the object in the XML output.
Data type: Boolean |
Fill Whole Page | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to extend the panel to the page bottom in the report, so that the next panel starts on a new page.
Data type: Boolean |
Invisible | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to hide the object in the design area and in the report. Logi Report Engine performs all calculations that involve the object regardless of whether the object is visible or not. Data type: Boolean |
Items per Block | Page Report, Web Report | You can use Current Block Index and Items per Block together to control the data of the object you want to display in continuous page mode. Item per Block specifies the number of the records in each data block. Data type: Integer |
Label | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies the tool tip you want to display for the panel when you hover over the left edge of the panel in the design area. Type a string to change the label. Data type: String |
On New Page | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to start the panel on a new page in the report. Default (the property being "false") is starting the panel on a new page only when the previous page is filled.
This property cannot take effect if you disable Page Layout for the report, meaning, the report is in continuous page mode. Data type: Boolean |
Record Location | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies 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.
For more information, see Example 2: Showing a Label on Every Page Except the Last. Data type: Enumeration |
Remove Blank Row | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to remove the blank rows in the panel in the Excel output.
Data type: Boolean |
Show Bottom Line | Query Page Report | Specifies whether to add a horizontal line at the bottom of the panel in the report. Data type: Boolean |
Suppress | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to suppress the object in the design area and in the report. If you suppress an object, Logi Report Engine skips all formulas and calculations that involve the object. This property has higher priority over Invisible. Data type: Boolean |
Suppress Blank Panel | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to suppress the panel in the report when it contains no data. Data type: Boolean |
Suppress When No Records | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to suppress the object in the report when no record is returned to its parent data component.
Data type: Boolean |
Tile Detail Panel | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to tile the records in the detail panel in the report.
For a vertical/horizontal banded object, you can tile each set of the records in the detail panel and specify the detail panel's width/height equal to or less than 1/2 of the banded object. The width/height of the detail panel defines that 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 | Designer enables this property when you set Tile Detail Panel to "true". You can use it to specify the direction you want to tile the records in the detail panel.
Data type: Boolean |
Underlay | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies whether to layer the panel beneath the next panel of the banded object in the report. You can use a panel layered beneath a subsequent panel to contain a background image or watermark. Data type: Boolean |
Border | ||
Border Color | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies 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 Joint | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies the joint style for the border lines of the object. Choose an option from the drop-down list.
Data type: Enumeration |
Border Thickness | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies the width for the border of the object. Type a numeric value to change the thickness.
Data type: Float |
Bottom Line | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies the line style for the bottom border of the object. Choose an option from the drop-down list.
Data type: Enumeration |
Left Line | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies the line style for the left border of the object. Choose an option from the drop-down list.
Data type: Enumeration |
Radius | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies the radius for the joint of the border lines. This property takes effect when you set Border Joint of the object to "round". Type a numeric value to change the radius. Data type: Integer |
Right Line | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies the line style for the right border of the object. Choose an option from the drop-down list.
Data type: Enumeration |
Top Line | Page Report, Web Report | Specifies the line style for the top border of the object. Choose an option from the drop-down list.
Data type: Enumeration |
Accessibility | ||
External CSS Class Selector | Query Page Report | Specifies the name of the Class Selector for the object in the HTML output. Data type: String |
External ID | Query Page Report | This property is mapped to the HTML attribute id, as specified by w3.org. Data type: String |
External Style | Query Page Report | This property is mapped to the HTML attribute style, as specified by w3.org. Data type: String |
Language | Query Page Report | This property is mapped to the HTML attribute lang, as specified by w3.org. Data type: String |