Shape Map Properties

Property Name	Description
General
Class Type	Indicates the class type of the object. This property is read only.
Data Inherit	Indicates whether the dataset for this object is inherited from another object. This property is read only.
Dataset	Indicates the dataset used by the object. This property is read only.
Instance Name	Shows the instance name of the object. This property is read only.
Geometry
Height	Specifies the height of the object. Type a numeric value to change the height. Data type: Float
Width	Specifies the width of the object. Type a numeric value to change the width. Data type: Float
X	Specifies the horizontal coordinate of the top left corner of the object, relative to its parent container. This property is ignored if the Position property is set to static. Type a numeric value to change the position. Data type: Float
Y	Specifies the vertical coordinate of the top left corner of the object, relative to its parent container. This property is ignored if the Position property is set to static. Type a numeric value to change the position. Data type: Float
Color
Background	Specifies the background color 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
Others
Auto Scale in Number	Specifies whether to automatically scale the Number values in the object that fall into the two ranges: When 1000 <= value < 10^15, Designer 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, Designer uses scientific notation to scale the values. Data type: Boolean
Default for Filter	Specifies whether to display the object as the default data component in the Apply To drop-down list of the Filter dialog box at runtime. Data type: Boolean In the same report, you can only set one data component's Default for Filter property to "true".
Detail Target Frame	Designer displays this property when the object is in the group header/footer panel of a banded object and enables it after you set Go to Detail to "true". You can use it to specify the target window or frame in which to display the detail information. Choose an option from the drop-down list. <Server Setting> - Select to load the detail information according to setting of the Pop up New Window for Links option in the Profile > Configure Profile > Page Report Studio > Properties > Default tab on Server. New Window - Select to load the detail information into a new window. The window is not named. Whole Window - Select to load the detail information into the full browser window. Same Frame - Select to load the detail information into the same frame as the object. Parent Frame - Select to load the detail information into the parent frame of the frame in which the object is. Other Frame - Select to load the detail information into some other specified frame. Type the name of the frame you have defined in the value cell. If the frame name does not exist, Server loads the detail information into a new window. Data type: String
Export to Excel	Specifies whether to include the object in the Excel output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to HTML	Specifies whether to include the object in the HTML output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to PDF	Specifies whether to include the object in the PDF output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to PostScript	Specifies whether to include the object in the PostScript output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to Report Result	Specifies whether to include the object when previewing the report in Page Report Result and running the report in Page Report Studio. Data type: Boolean
Export to RTF	Specifies whether to include the object in the RTF output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to XML	Specifies whether to include the object in the XML output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Go to Detail	Designer displays this property when the object is in the group header/footer panel of a banded object. You can use it to specify whether to show the detail information about the group when users select the object in Page Report Studio. For more information, see Obtaining the Group Details in a Banded Object. Data type: Boolean
Invisible	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
Invisible for Filter Dialogs	Specifies whether to display the object in the Apply To drop-down list of the Filter dialog box at runtime. Designer disables this property when you set Default for Filter to "true". Data type: Boolean
Position	Specifies the position of the object. Choose an option from the drop-down list. Data type: Enumeration
Suppress	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 When No Records	Specifies whether to display the object in the report result when no record is returned to its parent data component. Data type: Boolean
Excel
Column Index	Specifies the X coordinate of the object relative to its parent container in the Excel and CSV outputs of the report, measured in cells. This property takes effect only when the Columned property of the report tab or web report is "true" and Position of the object is not "static". Data type: Integer
Row Index	Specifies the Y coordinate of the object relative to its parent container in the Excel and CSV outputs of the report, measured in cells. This property takes effect only when the Columned property of the report tab is "true" and Position of the object is not "static". Data type: Integer
Border
Border Color	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 Thickness	Specifies the width of the border. Type a numeric value to change the thickness. Data type: Float
Bottom Line	Specifies the line style of the bottom border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list. Data type: Enumeration
Left Line	Specifies the line style of the left border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list. Data type: Enumeration
Right Line	Specifies the line style of the right border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list. Data type: Enumeration
Top Line	Specifies the line style of the top border of the object. Choose a style from the drop-down list. Data type: Enumeration
Map
Alternate Content Type	Specifies the tip type of the areas that have data. The tip shows when you hover over the area in HTML output or in Page Report Studio. Choose an option from the drop-down list. name - If selected, names of the areas will be used as the area tips. value - If selected, the summary values on the areas will be used as the area tips. If there is more than one value on an area, the summary values will be separated by comma. customized - If selected, you can specify the tip for each area via the Alternate Text property of the area in the Shape Map Editor. Data type: Enumeration
Column Name	Displays the mapping name of the field used as the image source. This property is read only.
Image Source	Specifies the source of the map image. Data type: String
Name	Specifies the name of the map. Data type: String
TOC
Anchor Display Value	Specifies a string or formula to display for the TOC entry for this object in the TOC Browser. By default it is the value of the specified object. The TOC Anchor property must be set to true for this property to take effect. Data type: String
TOC Anchor	Specifies whether to include the object in the TOC Browser for the report. Data type: Boolean
Accessibility
External CSS Class Selector	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	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	It is mapped to the HTML attribute style. This attribute specifies style information for the object. Data type: String
Language	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

Property Name

Description

General

Class Type

Indicates the class type of the object. This property is read only.

Data Inherit

Indicates whether the dataset for this object is inherited from another object. This property is read only.

Dataset

Indicates the dataset used by the object. This property is read only.

Instance Name

Shows the instance name of the object. This property is read only.

Geometry

Height

Specifies the height of the object. Type a numeric value to change the height.

Data type: Float

Width

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

Data type: Float

X

Specifies the horizontal coordinate of the top left corner of the object, relative to its parent container. This property is ignored if the Position property is set to static. Type a numeric value to change the position.

Data type: Float

Y

Specifies the vertical coordinate of the top left corner of the object, relative to its parent container. This property is ignored if the Position property is set to static. Type a numeric value to change the position.

Data type: Float

Color

Background

Specifies the background color 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

Others

Auto Scale in Number

Specifies whether to automatically scale the Number values in the object that fall into the two ranges:

When 1000 <= value < 10^15, Designer 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, Designer uses scientific notation to scale the values.

Data type: Boolean

Default for Filter

Specifies whether to display the object as the default data component in the Apply To drop-down list of the Filter dialog box at runtime.

Data type: Boolean

Note icon In the same report, you can only set one data component's Default for Filter property to "true".

Detail Target Frame

Designer displays this property when the object is in the group header/footer panel of a banded object and enables it after you set Go to Detail to "true". You can use it to specify the target window or frame in which to display the detail information. Choose an option from the drop-down list.

<Server Setting> - Select to load the detail information according to setting of the Pop up New Window for Links option in the Profile > Configure Profile > Page Report Studio > Properties > Default tab on Server.
New Window - Select to load the detail information into a new window. The window is not named.
Whole Window - Select to load the detail information into the full browser window.
Same Frame - Select to load the detail information into the same frame as the object.
Parent Frame - Select to load the detail information into the parent frame of the frame in which the object is.
Other Frame - Select to load the detail information into some other specified frame. Type the name of the frame you have defined in the value cell. If the frame name does not exist, Server loads the detail information into a new window.

Data type: String

Export to Excel

Specifies whether to include the object in the Excel output of the report.

Data type: Boolean

Export to HTML

Specifies whether to include the object in the HTML output of the report.

Data type: Boolean

Export to PDF

Specifies whether to include the object in the PDF output of the report.

Data type: Boolean

Export to PostScript

Specifies whether to include the object in the PostScript output of the report.

Data type: Boolean

Export to Report Result

Specifies whether to include the object when previewing the report in Page Report Result and running the report in Page Report Studio.

Data type: Boolean

Export to RTF

Specifies whether to include the object in the RTF output of the report.

Data type: Boolean

Export to XML

Specifies whether to include the object in the XML output of the report.

Data type: Boolean

Go to Detail

Designer displays this property when the object is in the group header/footer panel of a banded object. You can use it to specify whether to show the detail information about the group when users select the object in Page Report Studio. For more information, see Obtaining the Group Details in a Banded Object.

Data type: Boolean

Invisible

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

Invisible for Filter Dialogs

Specifies whether to display the object in the Apply To drop-down list of the Filter dialog box at runtime. Designer disables this property when you set Default for Filter to "true".

Data type: Boolean

Position

Specifies the position of the object. Choose an option from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration

Suppress

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

Note icon When you set both the Invisible and Suppress properties of an object to true, Suppress has the higher priority.

Suppress When No Records

Specifies whether to display the object in the report result when no record is returned to its parent data component.

Data type: Boolean

Excel

Column Index

Specifies the X coordinate of the object relative to its parent container in the Excel and CSV outputs of the report, measured in cells. This property takes effect only when the Columned property of the report tab or web report is "true" and Position of the object is not "static".

Data type: Integer

Row Index

Specifies the Y coordinate of the object relative to its parent container in the Excel and CSV outputs of the report, measured in cells. This property takes effect only when the Columned property of the report tab is "true" and Position of the object is not "static".

Data type: Integer

Border

Border Color

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 Thickness

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

Data type: Float

Bottom Line

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

Data type: Enumeration

Left Line

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

Data type: Enumeration

Right Line

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

Data type: Enumeration

Top Line

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

Data type: Enumeration

Map

Alternate Content Type

Specifies the tip type of the areas that have data. The tip shows when you hover over the area in HTML output or in Page Report Studio. Choose an option from the drop-down list.

name - If selected, names of the areas will be used as the area tips.
value - If selected, the summary values on the areas will be used as the area tips. If there is more than one value on an area, the summary values will be separated by comma.
customized - If selected, you can specify the tip for each area via the Alternate Text property of the area in the Shape Map Editor.

Data type: Enumeration

Column Name

Displays the mapping name of the field used as the image source. This property is read only.

Image Source

Specifies the source of the map image.

Data type: String

Name

Specifies the name of the map.

Data type: String

TOC

Anchor Display Value

Specifies a string or formula to display for the TOC entry for this object in the TOC Browser. By default it is the value of the specified object. The TOC Anchor property must be set to true for this property to take effect.

Data type: String

TOC Anchor

Specifies whether to include the object in the TOC Browser for the report.

Data type: Boolean

Accessibility

External CSS Class Selector

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

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

It is mapped to the HTML attribute style. This attribute specifies style information for the object.

Data type: String

Language

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