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Special Field Properties

You can use the Special Field Properties dialog box to edit the properties of a special field. This topic describes the properties in the dialog box.

This topic contains the following sections:

• General Tab Properties
• Font Tab Properties
• Border Tab Properties
• Others Tab Properties
• Display Tab Properties

You see these elements on all the tabs:

OK

Select to apply any changes you made here and exit the dialog box.

Cancel

Select to close the dialog box without saving any changes.

Help

Select to view information about the dialog box.

General Tab Properties

Specify the general properties of the special field.

Name

Specify the display name of the special field.

Show NLS Value

Select to show the translated name for the display name of the object in the Name text box if you have enabled the NLS feature and translated it, and when you have not modified the display name of the object.

Type

Select the type of the special field.

Position

Select the position mode of the object when it is directly contained in the report body, a tabular cell, or a text box.

• Absolute
  Select if you want to use the X and Y property values to decide the object's position.
• Static
  Select if you want to place the object at the default location in its container. Server will hide or disable the X, Y, and other position-related properties.

X

Specify the X coordinate of the special field.

Y

Specify the Y coordinate of the special field.

Width

Specify the width of the special field.

Height

Specify the height of the special field.

Background

Specify the background color of the special field.

To change the color, select the color indicator to access the Select Color dialog box, and then specify a new color. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value to specify a color, for example, #9933ff. If you want to make the background transparent, type Transparent in the text box.

Foreground

Specify the foreground color of the special field.

To change the color, select the color indicator to access the Select Color dialog box, and then specify a new color. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value to specify a color, for example, #9933ff.

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Font Tab Properties

Specify the font properties of the special field.

Font

Select the font face of the text.

Size

Specify the font size of the text.

Horizontal Alignment

Select the horizontal alignment mode of the text in the object.

Vertical Alignment

Select the vertical alignment mode of the text in the object.

Bold

Enable this property if you want to make the text bold.

Underline

Enable this property if you want to underline the text.

Strikethrough

Enable this property if you want to attach a strikeout line to the text.

Italic

Enable this property if you want to make the text italic.

Autofit

Enable this property if you want to automatically adjust the object width according to the maximum length of the content.

Word Wrap

Enable this property if you want to wrap the text to the object width.

Ignore HTML Tag

Enable this property if you don't want Logi Report Engine to parse the HTML tag elements in the text, at runtime or in the HTML output, so they display exactly as what they are in the report.

Disable this property if you want Engine to transfer the HTML tag elements to the web browser so the web browser translates them into HTML.

Repeat

Select true to repeat the group name in the report result. This property is available to a table. It takes effect only when the special field is in the detail row.

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Border Tab Properties

Specify the border properties of the special field.

Color

Specify the border color.

Width

Specify the border width in inches.

Top Line

Select the style of the top border line.

Bottom Line

Select the style of the bottom border line.

Left Line

Select the style of the left border line.

Right Line

Select the style of the right border line.

Shadow

Select true if you want to add a shadow effect to the border.

Shadow Color

Specify the color of the border shadow. To change the color, select the color indicator to access the Select Color dialog box, and then specify a new color. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value to specify a color, for example, #9933ff.

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Others Tab Properties

Configure some miscellaneous settings.

TOC Anchor

Select true if you want to add the object to the TOC tree in the TOC Browser.

Suppress When No Records

Select true if you want to hide the object in the report result when no record returns to its parent data component.

Export to XLS

Select true if you want to export the object when you save the report result as an XLS file (make sure to check Data Format in the Export dialog box).

Export to CSV

Select true if you want to export the object when you save the report result as a TXT file with Delimited Format.

Logic Column

You see this property when the object is in a table. Select next visible column if you want to show the object in the next visible table cell in the same row when you have hidden the column that holds the object.

Data Evaluation Setting

Specify the group information for the special field. You see this property when it is in a table.

• current column
  Select if you want the special field to take the value in the current column.
• current row
  Select if you want the special field to take the value in the current row.

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Display Tab Properties

Use this tab to modify the render type of the special field. For more information, see Data Field Properties.

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