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Insert Banded Object Dialog Box Properties

This topic describes how you can use the Insert Banded Object dialog box to insert a banded object to a report. Server displays the dialog box when you drag Banded from the Components panel to the destination.

This topic contains the following sections:

• Details Tab Properties
• Group Tab Properties
• Summary Tab Properties

You see these elements on all the tabs:

Banded Title

Specifies a title for the banded object.

Specifies the font properties for title of the banded object. After you select the button, Server displays the following dialog box for you to edit the font properties:

• Font
  Select the font face of the title.
• Font Style
  Select the font style of the title: regular, bold, italic, and bold italic.
• Size
  Specify the font size of the title.
• Align
  Specify the position of the title to be left, right, center, or justify.
• Font Color
  Specify the font color of the title.

  To change the color, select the color indicator. Server displays the color palette. Select a color, or select More Colors to access the Color Picker dialog box in which you can specify a color within a wider range. You can also type a hexadecimal RGB value to specify a color, for example, #9933ff.

• Background Color
  Specify the background color of the title.
• 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.

Data Source

Specifies the business view in the current catalog on which the banded object will be built.

Filter

Opens the Query Filter dialog box to specify the filter which you want to apply to the selected business view.

OK

Inserts a banded object and closes the dialog box.

Cancel

Cancels the insertion and closes the dialog box.

Displays the help document about this feature.

Ignores the setting and closes this dialog box.

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Details Tab Properties

Specifies the detail fields that you want to display in the banded object.

Resources

Displays all the group objects and detail objects in the selected business view.

Sorts the view elements in the specified order from the drop-down list. Once a user changes the order, it will be applied to all the resource trees where business view elements are listed for this user.

The order can be one of the following:

• Predefined Order
  Select if you want to sort the resources in the order as in the Business View Editor of Designer.
• Resource Types
  Select if you want to sort the resources by the resource type. Namely, category objects come first, then group objects, then aggregation objects, and at last detail objects.
• Alphabetical Order
  Select if you want to sort the resources in alphabetical order. Logi Report sorts the resources that are not in any category first, and then the categories. It also sorts the resources in each category alphabetically.

Launches the search bar to search for objects.

See the following properties in the search bar:

• Text box
  Type the text you want to search in the text box. Server lists the values that contain the matched text.
• Close button
  Select to close the search bar.
• More Options button
  Select the button and Server displays more search options.
  • Highlight All
    Select if you want to highlight all matched text.
  • Match Case
    Select if you want to search for text that meets the case of the typed text.
  • Match Whole Word
    Select if you want to search for text that looks the same as the typed text.
• Previous button
  Select to go to the previous matched text when you have selected Highlight All.
• Next button
  Select to go to the next matched text when you have selected Highlight All.

Adds the selected object to be displayed in the banded object.

Removes the selected object that is added.

Field

Lists the group and detail objects that have been added to the banded object as the detail fields.

Label

Specifies the text for the labels of the detail fields, which by default are the display names of the added objects. You can select a text box to edit the label, or select the Auto Map Field Name checkbox beside the text box to automatically map the label to the dynamic display name of the object.

Move Up button

Select to move the selected item higher in the list.

Move Down button

Select to move the selected item lower in the list.

Sort Fields By

Opens the Custom Sort dialog box to specify how to sort data in the banded object.

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Group Tab Properties

Specifies the fields to group the data.

Resources

Displays all the available group objects you can use to group the data in the banded object.

Sorts the group objects in the specified order from the drop-down list. Once a user changes the order, it will be applied to all the resource trees where business view elements are listed for this user.

Launches the search bar to search for group objects.

Adds the selected group object as a group-by field.

Removes the selected group object.

Field

Lists all the group objects that have been added as the group-by fields.

Sort

Specifies the sort order for groups at the specific group level.

• Ascend
  Groups will be sorted in an ascending order (A, B, C).
• Descend
  Groups will be sorted in a descending order (C, B, A).
• No Sort
  Groups will be sorted in the original order in database.
• Custom Sort
  Opens the Custom Sort dialog box to set how groups will be sorted.

Move Up button

Select to move the selected item higher in the list.

Move Down button

Select to move the selected item lower in the list.

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Summary Tab Properties

Specifies the fields on which to create summaries.

Resources

Displays all the available aggregation objects you can use to create summaries in the banded object.

Sorts the aggregation objects in the specified order from the drop-down list. Once a user changes the order, it will be applied to all the resource trees where business view elements are listed for this user.

Launches the search bar to search for aggregation objects.

Adds the selected aggregation object as the summary field.

Removes the selected aggregation object.

Field

Lists the groups that have been added in the banded object and the aggregation objects added to summarize data in each group.

Row

Specifies to put the summary field in the header or footer row. If the summary is calculated on a group-by field, it will be put in the group header or footer of the corresponding group; if the summary is calculated on the banded object, it will be put in the banded header or footer.

Column

Works together with the Row option to specify the location where a summary will be placed.

Move Up button

Select to move the selected item higher in the list.

Move Down button

Select to move the selected item lower in the list.

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