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Table Column Properties

A table can contain four types of columns: Common Column, Detail Column, Group Column, and Summary Column, and Designer displays the same set of properties for all the columns. This topic describes the properties of a Table Column 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
General
Class Type	Query Page Report	Shows the class type of the object. This property is read only.
Instance Name	Query Page Report	Shows the instance name of the object. This property is read only.
Others
Auto Fit	Page Report, Web Report, Library Component	Specifies whether to adjust the width of the object according to its content. Data type: Boolean If you set the property to "true", Designer adjusts the width of the object only when the Position property of the field/label in this object is "static" or "relative"; if the Position property of the field/label is "absolute", its Auto Fit property should be "true".
Export to CSV	Page Report, Web Report, Library Component	Specifies whether to include the object in the CSV output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to Excel	Page Report, Web Report, Library Component	Specifies whether to include the object in the Excel output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to HTML	Page Report, Web Report, Library Component	Specifies whether to include the object in the HTML output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to PDF	Page Report, Web Report, Library Component	Specifies whether to include the object in the PDF output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to PostScript	Page Report, Web Report, Library Component	Specifies whether to include the object in the PostScript output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to Report Result	Page Report, Web Report, Library Component	Specifies whether to include the object when you preview the report in Page Report Result for a page report or Web Report Result for a web report in Designer, and when users run the report or use the library component at runtime. Data type: Boolean
Export to RTF	Page Report, Web Report, Library Component	Specifies whether to include the object in the RTF output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to Text	Page Report, Web Report, Library Component	Specifies whether to include the object in the Text output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Export to XML	Page Report, Web Report, Library Component	Specifies whether to include the object in the XML output of the report. Data type: Boolean
Invisible	Page Report, Web Report, Library Component	Specifies whether to hide the object in the design area and in the report result. Logi Report Engine performs all the calculations that involve the object regardless of whether the object is visible or not. Data type: Boolean

• If a table contains a merged cell that is across columns and there are absolutely positioned objects in the cell, when you exclude a column which is not the last column for this merged cell from the report output, Designer recalculates the X coordinates of those objects that are in the excluded column and tries to display them in the output if space allows; however, this may result in that some objects overlap in their new position in the output.
• Because one cell in Excel can only contain one value, if you exclude a table column from the Excel output, Designer is not able to display the value of a data field which is originally in the excluded column in the Excel output if the new position of the field is in a cell that already contains a value, even when the field satisfies the conditions as described above.

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